"New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion."

“In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.”

“I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.”

Source : "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

“If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.”

“The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com

“When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.”

“Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.”

“A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds.”

Source : 'Ars Poetica' (1926)

“Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.”

Source : "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.