Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Matthew Broderick

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Matthew Broderick is an American actor and singer. His roles include the Golden Globe-nominated portrayal of the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), the voice of adult Simba in Disney's The Lion King (1994), and Leo Bloom in both the Broadway musical The Producers and its 2005 film adaptation. Other films he had starring credits in include WarGames (1983), Glory (1989), The Freshman (1990), The Cable Guy (1996), Godzilla (1998), Inspector Gadget (1999), You Can Count on Me (2000) and The Last Shot (2004). Broderick also directed himself in Infinity (1996) and provided voice work in Good Boy! (2003), Bee Movie (2007), and The Tale of Despereaux (2008).

American - Actor | Born: March 21, 1962

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I spent a lot of time growing up in Ireland in Donegal.

Matthew Broderick

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

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I love musicals more than anything.

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There can be moments onstage - but sometimes in a movie, too - where you just feel you're in a golden space. You're in this strange world where everything you do makes sense. And it's funny: the audience is right in it with you, and the other actors, and you get these rare moments of feeling at one with something. You hear voices in your head.

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Most of the people in Donegal knew me long before I was an actor. But even since then, they don't talk that much about it, which is very nice.

Matthew Broderick

I've liked Pete Gurney's writing always.

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It was not a good thing in my family to be a 'personality.'

Matthew Broderick

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

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I saw Al Pacino on the street once. That made me very nervous.

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'The Road to Wellville'... it had Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, directed by Alan Parker. I hadn't been doing all that well, and I was thrilled to get it, and it just didn't work. It was a terrible movie, but I don't think it's anyone's fault.

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I like the sentimentality of 'Miracle on 34th Street' and all those movies, and there actually is a tradition of Christmas comedies, too.

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I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

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I'm not the best dog owner.

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I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

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I used to wonder what it would be like to see my name on a billboard. I couldn't even imagine something like that. Then you see it, and, well, it just makes billboards not as special as they used to be. It's weird.

Matthew Broderick

It's no fun to be miscast. The times I've done parts that I don't feel, in retrospect, I was great for - it's a very bad feeling.

Matthew Broderick

I liked 'Brighton Beach Memoirs,' which I did with Neil Simon. I kind of was playing him, as Eugene Morris Jerome, and I played that a few times at the very beginning of my career.

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Anytime I talk about my wife, I want to make it, like, 'the battle-ax,' and I always do that bit, but it's not true. She's a very positive person.

Matthew Broderick

Television makes you very famous. It's very strange.

Matthew Broderick

People are consistently telling me how much they like my wife. That's my cross to bear.

Matthew Broderick

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

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I think if ever I met Peter O'Toole, I'd faint.

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'Election' - I just loved the script, and I loved having the part.

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We celebrated Christmas. Not religiously, but we did the tree and the lights. Hannukah always seemed not quite as thrilling - Sorry to my Jewish brothers and sisters! But when you're a kid, Santa and all that, you know, that really trumps the menorah. So we did Christmas.

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I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

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Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

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The first dog I got was a border collie. Her name was Sally.

Matthew Broderick

When I see people who have to fly to a city every day with a laptop and stuff, that's why - I don't think I could manage that.

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When I was a kid, I would sometimes go to Ireland with our family.

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I think I'm a somewhat nervous bee who just wants to conform. Which, I guess, is common in bees.

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Can I get a fork?; There were no utensils in medieval times, hence there ARE no utensils AT Medieval Times- would you like a refill on your Pepsi? ;So there were no utensils but there was Pepsi?; Dude, I got a lot of tables to wait

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My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old.

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