Harland Reesor Williams (born November 14, 1962) is a Canadian actor, comedian, author, artist, musician and radio personality.
Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"
I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.
Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it. So, I don't go out there [thinking], "Oh, I want to make this as silly as possible. " In fact, sometimes I get the most enjoyment out of a sketch that plays very real - and it's so real that it's just funny.
I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.
Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.
I don't go on tour tours, I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.
I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
I love the theater of the mind because you can go anywhere. You can say anything, and you pull people in. [You] can be jumping out of a window or riding a cow or having bubble-wrap sex or spraying your body with Pam and sliding out of your chair.
Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.
I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where youre going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.
Everything's a conspiracy and everything's not a conspiracy. You could look at this planet and go, "This is all a conspiracy. God made this to test us to see if we'll use the nukes. " You can let your mind believe anything.
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
I think people should maybe just go out into the garden and watch a ladybug crawl across a flower and relax their mind. That's about all you need to know about life, I think.
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.