Fred Savage Quotes

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Fred Savage

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 9, 1976

Looking back at the 'Wonder Years,' I see things I did well, and I see things I did very, very badly.

Fred Savage

I wasn't some sort of ingenue. I always saw myself as a lifer in this industry, and working as an actor on 'Wonder Years' was a first act.

Fred Savage

I love how restaurants work. The energy, the pace, and the idea of working under budgetary restraints reminds me a lot of sets.

Fred Savage

Some people look at TV as a means to an end. I look at it as my career - and one I love.

Fred Savage

Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the best way to do that is to study and learn about the greatest stories ever written.

Fred Savage

The persona of 'The Wonder Years' is something that's going to be with me forever. And I'm happy for that. It's nothing that I'd ever shy away from, and it makes me feel so good that it's something people still remember and talk about it and think of it so fondly.

Fred Savage

I think now I've established myself as a director, but starting out, I'd be foolish to think that every opportunity that came after 'The Wonder Years' didn't stem from 'The Wonder Years.' So I owe so much of everything for that show.

Fred Savage

The move into adult comedy wasn't so much moving away from 'The Wonder Years' as expanding myself as a director.

Fred Savage

Directing is literally what I've always wanted to do, ever since I was a kid. So I love the career I've built behind the camera.

Fred Savage

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.

Fred Savage

Really, anyone in the business who transitions into directing as a writer or editor or an actor or a cinematographer, at some point you have to kind of take a leap and say, 'I'm committed to this.'

Fred Savage

I was never really aware of being famous. Being in a magazine or on a billboard - that really didn't register to me at all when I was younger. People would come up to me and recognize me, but I was very fortunate in that people were always so warm.

Fred Savage

I don't think that being an actor or being a performer at a young age leads to failures as an adult. There's a lot more success stories than I think people recognize.

Fred Savage

I appreciate everything. I built my career from very humble beginnings. Every job I've had, every next rung on the ladder, I appreciate because I know where it started - I started doing Pac-Man vitamin commercials.

Fred Savage

Everything I've jumped into and tried and every experience I've had and career opportunity, including going to 'The Grinder,' it was just because it sounded exciting and fun and new and different.

Fred Savage

I was always very interested in the storytelling decisions that went into directing. It just held this real allure for me. You know, if we're doing a scene at a dinner table, they weren't all shot the same. 'Why was the camera here for one moment and there for another?'

Fred Savage

I don't really spend a lot of time discounting the things I'm doing in hopes that I could be doing something else.

Fred Savage

You can still have a very productive, crime-free life when you're growing up in show business.

Fred Savage

I have been working in the entertainment industry my whole life and have always endeavored to treat everyone on any set I work on respectfully and professionally.

Fred Savage