Quotes by Christopher Lloyd - Page 2

Judge Doom is such an evil cartoon! It was just such fun to do. I liked the whole mystique of it: the long cape, the glasses, and all that stuff. You grow up with horror films as a kid, and it all seemed to be embodied in that one guy.
Christopher Lloyd /
Cartoon
Doom
Glasses
Mystique
Cape
Embodied
Horror Films
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The film 'Back to the Future' certainly did a lot to put me where I am today, and I did not foresee that. I just was hoping the film would open successfully, the first one, but it's gone way beyond what I think most of us have imagined.
Christopher Lloyd /
First One
Foresee
Hoping
Successfully
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A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.
Christopher Lloyd /
Imitating
Opposite
Stumble
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I'm persistent. In the early '60s, when I first started making the rounds in New York for theater work, I became more and more enraged every time I had an interview or audition that went nowhere, and became more determined. I haven't lost that.
Christopher Lloyd /
Determined
Rounds
Audition
Nowhere
Enraged
Interview
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I was just very shy. I was never anxious to do talk shows, as I didn't know what to say. And I don't feel I have any inherent interest. But as I'm getting older, I feel I want to be able to share whatever I know if it means something to someone.
Christopher Lloyd /
Anxious
Getting Older
Inherent
Share
Shy
Talk Shows
Older
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I had kind of an attitude, which was not uncommon in New York. Theater people who went to Hollywood to do sitcoms were selling out. That was the attitude. And I didn't really relish the idea of being cast in a sitcom, because I shared that attitude.
Christopher Lloyd /
Relish
Selling
Sitcom
Uncommon
Shared
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I don't know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it's told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.
Christopher Lloyd /
Credibility
Sci Fi
Strange World
Love Imagination World
Trip
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One of the things I like and appreciate a lot is when somebody will come up to me and tell me how much Judge Doom terrified them as little children when he takes the shoe and puts it in the dip. They were literally scared out of their minds. I love that.
Christopher Lloyd /
Dip
Doom
Terrified
Love Me Will
Love Me Children
Little Children
Puts
Shoe
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I had told my agents that I didn't want to do television. I can't believe I had that gall, looking back on it. I would never condescend to do TV, and then 'Taxi' called up for a guest spot in the first season. And my common sense kind of took over, I guess.
Christopher Lloyd /
Agents
Common Sense
Looking Back
Taxi
Believe Looking Back Looking
Gall
Guest
Spot
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In the movie 'Star Trek 3: The Return of Spock,' I'm a really bad Klingon, and I really enjoyed playing that - somebody who's totally unscrupulous. It's like he was not genetically equipped to feel compassion or sensitivity. Just outright evil without apology.
Christopher Lloyd /
Movie
Apology
Compassion
Enjoyed
Evil
Movie Star
Return
Sensitivity
Feel
Totally
Somebody
Bad
Star
Without
Equipped
Genetically
Outright
Playing
Spock
Star Trek
Trek
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Over the years, I have attended comic book conventions and met people that are die-hard fans; they'll come up and say, 'Clue' is my favorite movie of all time.' It has definitely resonated in some way with people and just continued to build up over the years considerably.
Christopher Lloyd /
Clue
Comic
Comic Book
Fans
Build
Time People Way
Attended
Favorite
Considerably
Definitely
Met
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I was already committed to a play back in New York about Hans Christian Andersen, where Colleen Dewhurst was going to play my mother. I was excited about that, and I got this script called 'Back to the Future,' and I thumbed through it. Didn't pay a hell of a lot of attention.
Christopher Lloyd /
Committed
Script
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There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.
Christopher Lloyd /
Embarrassment
Enormous
Intellect
Manage
Tricky
Wit
Always Me People
Me People Way
Percentage
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I find it difficult to work if I don't know the lines, you know, and not just knowing - they're second nature to me. Then, whatever happens in the performance when you're actually doing it, you're not going to go off. You're going to retain all of that. So I like to have my lines.
Christopher Lloyd /
Retain
Second Nature
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Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel was one of them. I was just very inspired by being able to portray somebody of that sort. He's a man of tremendous energy and excitement about discovery.
Christopher Lloyd /
Imagination
Travel
Brown
Discovery
Excitement
Inspired
New Ways
Solutions
Time Travel
Constantly
Tremendous
Portray
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It was 1976, and I was acting off-Broadway with a pair of Canadians: Victor Garber and Gale Garnett. The play was called 'Cracks,' and Martin Sherman, the man who wrote it, went on a few years later to have a giant hit with 'Bent.' But not this time around. Opening night was a disaster.
Christopher Lloyd /
Bent
Cracks
Disaster
Gale
Opening
Canadians
Giant
Pair
Victor
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In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.
Christopher Lloyd /
Audience
Human Beings
Share
Wonder
Actual
Anymore
Beings
Comedies
Laugh
Studio
Tracks
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I really enjoy playing villains, whether they're realistic like Switchblade Sam or whether they're a bit more over-the-top like Kruge in 'Star Trek III' or Judge Doom in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' It's sort of a license just to be as bad as the script allows you to be - you can just go for it and have fun.
Christopher Lloyd /
Doom
Framed
License
Over The Top
Realistic
Roger
Fun Bad More
Go For It
Have Fun
Iii
Rabbit
Sam
Star Trek
Trek
Villains
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I don't remember that I ever really went all out to come up with a costume or a persona that could compete with everyone around me. I didn't know what to do. I found Halloween scary for just that fact - it meant that I had pressure to get up and be scary, makeup and all that. That was pretty horrifying for me.
Christopher Lloyd /
Halloween
Persona
Compete
Costume
Horrifying
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'Hamlet' was the first movie I saw. In 1948, my mother said, 'I'm going to take you to see 'Hamlet' with Laurence Olivier.' She was worried about taking me to it because she wasn't sure I was old enough to understand it or to maybe be adversely affected by it, but I got recordings of it and memorized all the soliloquies.
Christopher Lloyd /
Affected
Worried
Hamlet
Laurence
Old Enough
Recordings
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I did so many interviews and auditions for films, and it was just zilch. Nothing I did impressed anybody! I could just feel it. It was always, 'Okay, thank you, Mr. Lloyd.' Then, out of the blue, 'Cuckoo's Nest' came to cast. A casting director who sent me up for different things over the years sent me up for that, and it just clicked.
Christopher Lloyd /
Thank You
Auditions
Blue
Casting
Different Things
Impressed
Always Me Feel
Always Me Nothing
Clicked
Cuckoo
Nest
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I would love to do Doc again, no question. It's tough to come up with an idea that contains the excitement of the original three. So it would be a real challenge for the writers to come up with an original 'Back to the Future' story that has the same passion and intensity and excitement as the other three. But it could be done. You never know.
Christopher Lloyd /
Excitement
Intensity
Contains
No Question
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