Matthew Lillard
Matthew Lillard
Matthew Lyn Lillardis an American actor, voice actor, director and producer. He is known for his roles as Stu Macher in Scream, Stevo in SLC Punk, Chip from Serial Mom, and the voice of Shaggy Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth24 January 1970
CityLansing, MI
CountryUnited States of America
careers awkward kind
I'm almost 40, so it's an awkward time in my career. You kind of hope it comes through and, if not, I'll be a waiter. Awesome.
kids
Nothing would make my kids happier than to do another movie.
people guy waiting
I've always been a guy that doesn't do well waiting for people to say, "You can act." It's always been a part of me.
first-love opportunity reality
My first love is acting, but the reality is that I just don't get too many opportunities to stretch, and grow, and inspire myself as an actor, certainly not in terms of where I make money. Yeah, I can go off and do a play, but the reality is as a profession, directing is exponentially more satisfying.
drama actors coins
There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.
long people intense
When you go from movie to movie, it's like going from family to family. You work with people for really intense hours on really long days and a bond happens. So even when a movie is terrible, you love it.
numbers lines fantastic
The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.
kids trying actors
As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.
dream kids actors
Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.
glasses years validation
You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.
smart kids rocks
To me, the punk rock kids I grew up with were really, really smart, and to me, respecting those kids was a really big deal.
love-is acting actors
For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.
hard-times people watches
The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.
roots people actors
I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."