Christopher Lloyd Quotes

Christopher Lloyd

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 22, 1938

Judge Doom is such an evil cartoon! It was just such fun to do. I liked the whole mystique of it: the long cape, the glasses, and all that stuff. You grow up with horror films as a kid, and it all seemed to be embodied in that one guy.

Christopher Lloyd

I meet people on the street who literally chose their careers because they saw 'Back to the Future' and decided they wanted to be scientists or astronomers or engineers.

Christopher Lloyd

I've always been fascinated by real scientists - Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and so many others - how they've come up with solutions to very complicated problems that nobody else can seem to figure out.

Christopher Lloyd

I wanted to do film. I was living in New York and working in theater, but I always wanted to do film.

Christopher Lloyd

I like television, but there's not as much freedom as there is in film or theatre, and I always felt that there is a certain pressure in being able to put out a product, but it's OK.

Christopher Lloyd

Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.

Christopher Lloyd

I don't worry too much about typecasting. I just figure, one way or another, I'm going to find another role.

Christopher Lloyd

I would love to do Doc again, no question. It's tough to come up with an idea that contains the excitement of the original three. So it would be a real challenge for the writers to come up with an original 'Back to the Future' story that has the same passion and intensity and excitement as the other three. But it could be done. You never know.

Christopher Lloyd

When I go to Comic-Cons and people line up for autographs, so many people have a story about how they are moved, how they get tearful about what 'Back To The Future' meant to them.

Christopher Lloyd

I had an attitude about some work, like television sitcoms. It was selling your soul.

Christopher Lloyd

I don't remember that I ever really went all out to come up with a costume or a persona that could compete with everyone around me. I didn't know what to do. I found Halloween scary for just that fact - it meant that I had pressure to get up and be scary, makeup and all that. That was pretty horrifying for me.

Christopher Lloyd

I got a few speeding tickets when I was young, but I'm a little more like the turtle than the hare.

Christopher Lloyd

I enjoy doing complicated or peculiar people.

Christopher Lloyd

I find it difficult to work if I don't know the lines, you know, and not just knowing - they're second nature to me. Then, whatever happens in the performance when you're actually doing it, you're not going to go off. You're going to retain all of that. So I like to have my lines.

Christopher Lloyd

I'll run into somebody, and of all the movies I've done, they may say something about 'Back to the Future' or whatever, but then they make reference to 'Clue' very favorably.

Christopher Lloyd

I'm kind of lethargic in real life.

Christopher Lloyd

I'm persistent. In the early '60s, when I first started making the rounds in New York for theater work, I became more and more enraged every time I had an interview or audition that went nowhere, and became more determined. I haven't lost that.

Christopher Lloyd

I'm somewhat of a solitary person.

Christopher Lloyd

I don't like to repeat myself.

Christopher Lloyd