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Christopher Crosby Farley (1964 – 1997) was an American actor and comedian. Farley was known for his loud, energetic comedic style, and was a member of Chicago’s Second City Theatre and later a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live between 1990 and 1995. He then went on to pursue a film career, starring in films such as Tommy Boy , Beverly Hills Ninja , Billy Madison and Almost Heroes . He died of a drug overdose at the age of 33.
"People need a time to laugh. It’s up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, ‘ I may be bad, honey, but I’m not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen .’"
"Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes."
"I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, ‘Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.’ I thought, ‘ Who cares? As long as they’re laughing .’"
"I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds. I’d work out on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts."
"Everybody laughs when fatty falls down."
"Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I’m a human being like everyone else. I’m not exempt."
"I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn’t apply. But they do. It’s still life on life’s terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons."
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- - - - - - -"Basically, I only play one character; I just play him at different volumes."
"I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, ‘Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.’ I thought, ‘ Who cares? As long as they’re laughing .’"
"I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds. I’d work out on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts."
"Everybody laughs when fatty falls down."
"Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I’m a human being like everyone else. I’m not exempt."
"I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn’t apply. But they do. It’s still life on life’s terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons."