I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.


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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just tu...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal la...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all the...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. W...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting h...
HARLAND WILLIAMS
Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than peop...
IAN WILLIAMS
It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS
I'm too tasteful for my pants.
IAN WILLIAMS
I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
IAN WILLIAMS
I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I p...
IAN WILLIAMS
I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
IAN WILLIAMS
We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a nega...
IAN WILLIAMS
I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably...
IAN WILLIAMS
This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or somet...
IAN WILLIAMS
Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
IAN WILLIAMS
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS
Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by mysel...
RICKY WILLIAMS
The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
RICKY WILLIAMS
As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there ...
RICKY WILLIAMS
As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the...
RICKY WILLIAMS
A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
RICKY WILLIAMS
I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the streng...
RICKY WILLIAMS
When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore ...
RICKY WILLIAMS