Eugene Levy Quotes

• "I can't remember the last time I played a bad guy, so that was kind of an appeal."
• "I love dumb, OK?"
• "I'll look at the script and go, 'This is great. Ooooh, and I love this character, [but] I'm not thrilled with the way it's written.' But you can see how the character should work. So I usually do a lot of re-writing to make sure the character comes through my own eyes."
• "In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part."
• "So, listen, different strokes for different folks, some people just like the joke, some people like to hear the funny line. The joke is the thing, and it works for them. Airplane!, the Zucker brothers, they perfected that art form - just an hour and a half of great, funny jokes. Fabulous!"
• "The characters were part of the storylines that ran through each show, and then we went outside the studio to the town of Melonville, with Mayor Tommy Shanks, and there would be elections. We created a universe around those characters."
• "The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician."
• "This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge."
• "We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out."
• "I can't remember the last time I played a bad guy, so that was kind of an appeal."