Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Will Sasso

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian actor Will Sasso.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

William Sasso is a Canadian actor, comedian and podcaster. He is notable for his five seasons as a cast member on Mad TV from 1997 to 2002, for starring as Curly in the 2012 film reboot of The Three Stooges, and as Mover #1 in Happy Gilmore (1996). He is also known for his TV roles as Carl Monari in Less than Perfect (2003–2006), Doug Martin in How I Met Your Mother (2008–2012), and Bill Ryan in United We Fall (2020).

Canadian - Actor | Born: May 24, 1975

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It may sound kind of brash but you really do have to treat it like just another job. It could be over tomorrow, and if you invest too much of yourself in, 'Hey I am the show and the show is me,' you'll get snapped hard.

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I was fortunate enough to crash the right audition when I was 15, and just took it from there.

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I like playing average guys who have a little extra something.

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I've been acting since I was 15 years old professionally, and I've never been asked on the 'TODAY' show or anything like that. And now here I am on the 'TODAY' show, it's bizarre!

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A good sketch show, in my opinion, gets together a bunch of fun, funny people and collects their brainfarts, and shares them.

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I can bluff with the best of them.

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Julius Sharpe and his wife are extremely loving parents, and because I follow them on Instagram, I always see them, you know, building forts in their living room with their daughters, and doing this and that.

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As a kid I would watch 'SCTV,' 'Saturday Night Live,' 'Monty Python' and 'The Kids in the Hall,' and be amazed that these guys got to be different people every week. It spoke to the acting side in me.

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I'm not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous person probably weren't my best work.

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Even more than the comedy thing, I really wanted to be an actor.

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That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

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It's how we live, making fun of ourselves.

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Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

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The Internet is a sketch show.

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There are very few actors in L.A. who can call their own shots. If you're able to work on something that you actually like working on, you're a very lucky person, and if you're able to keep it going, you're very fortunate.

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Sketch comes from everyday life. You can see someone on the street, and it can turn into a five-minute sketch.

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I don't like aggressive humor or mean humor.

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I was fortunate to literally find my style on camera working in Canada.

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I'm from Vancouver and friends of mine will shoot something up in Vancouver and they'll be like, 'Ugh.' They've never been to Vancouver and they're like, 'They got me stuck in Vancouver for three months.' I'm like, 'No, you're being set free. It's one of the most livable cities in the entire world.'

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Anytime I get to come home and work, it is special for me.

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I sort of as a kid was fascinated with all the fat comedians, like John Candy, John Belushi, Benny Hill.

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Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don't need to do it very much. 'Survivor' is like that.

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I've never done a role because I was supposed to be the overweight guy.

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'MADtv' was a network show, so we would come across the people that we were lampooning - a lot.

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As a Canadian, I feel like we all have a stake in the business here. And no matter how far you stray - and I've been down in L.A. for a long time - no matter how far you stray you have a stake in the state of the business... It really does matter and I'm always rooting for the entire country.

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At any kind of Fox function, you'll see 'Mad TV' at the kiddy table in the back, next to the buffet. We're a late-night sketch show, and there is more money in prime time.

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I want to be known as the Daniel Day-Lewis of TV dads.

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Shatner will spin lines in ways you don't see coming - he winds the audience down like a spring and hits the line so hard, they erupt. It's amazing to watch actually.

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I was blown away all the time by just how amazing people are in Canada, because even if they hated me, they still would try to help me.

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When you get to do something based on a true story, it always raises the level of excitement.

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I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' when I was a kid. It was kind of like growing up playing a sport, wanting to be drafted by your favorite team.

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Jonathan Sadowski is a kick in the pants; he's become a really good buddy.

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I really preferred the characters I could totally create by myself, because I always think of myself as an actor first.

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Pretty soon I may have to go back to Canada and buy that lumberyard I've always wanted. I'll probably sell some lumber, bring in some lumber... look at exploiting that lumber somehow. I'm not very schooled in it, but being an actor I feel that I have a keen sensibility with regard to the world of lumber because those two businesses are so similar.

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Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

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