I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird. Kurt Fuller More Quotes by Kurt Fuller More Quotes From Kurt Fuller I suppose there are a lot of people who'd kill to have my career, but I still feel like a fan. Kurt Fuller fans careers people I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy. Kurt Fuller guy believe people I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it. Kurt Fuller auditions panic believe I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor. Kurt Fuller having-kids sarcasm kids I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career. Kurt Fuller careers persons If I had not lived the life I had lived and did not have the wife I have and the children I have, I would never know how to play that role [of Dr. Bedsloe], and I wouldn't have any of those qualities. It's a real example of how it is true that the camera catches everything. Even the stuff you're trying to hide. Kurt Fuller real play children I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius." Kurt Fuller genius guy thinking I started out old, but I have to say that I've been very lucky to work consistently since I started. I've really never been out of work. Kurt Fuller consistently lucky I got all of my out-of-work time done in the years when I first came to L.A.! Kurt Fuller done years firsts Paul Michael Glaser was very nice to me, and I was again told, "Do less and less and less and less." And I still was bad! I can't believe I kept getting hired after some of these things I did! It's baffling to me. I'll go back and look at it, and I can't even watch it [Running man film]. Kurt Fuller nice running believe I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. Kurt Fuller showers kind running I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. Kurt Fuller growing-up girl sarcastic Do less than you ever thought it was possible to do. Kurt Fuller I was probably 34 when I got my first on-camera acting job, and it was through a friend of mine, who was working as a writer on the show, and I've never been more frightened in my life. Kurt Fuller cameras acting jobs In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls. Kurt Fuller actors girl character I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the most beautiful girl I had ever known, and she was taking an acting class, so I decided to take the same acting class. And I was a terrible actor in college. Kurt Fuller girl college beautiful You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act. Kurt Fuller actors school thinking I did so much theater, where everybody I worked with was so much better than me, that I just sort of learned. Kurt Fuller theater I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type. Kurt Fuller guy eye dark I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition. Kurt Fuller actors office ideas
