Matthew Lillard Net Worth

Matthew Lillard's Quotes

• I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!
• [on directing versus acting and directing his first film] - I think that that's [directing] a way more exciting way to live your life... Being an actor, you have to memorize a page of dialogue, and you hit a mark and you say the line with honesty and energy and hopefully it works. Being a director is so much more fulfilling. You just have so much more input, you have more avenues to tell a story, and the experience overall to me was such a life-changing event. If it was up to me, I would never act again and direct for the rest of my life to be honest.
• [2012, on SLC Punk! (1998)] It's the only time in my life that I've ever been given the opportunity to really carry a film. I mean, you could argue I carried Scooby-Doo (2002) to some extent, too, but... Oh, I guess I've done it on other movies, too, like _Spooner_. But for me, the proudest piece of acting I have is when I'm doing what I do in most of that film. I mean, that's one of those movies that I remember doing and being super-proud of it even as I was doing it. You mention that movie, and "pride" is definitely the first word that comes to mind.
• [2012, on filming Wing Commander (1999)] We shot that in Luxembourg, and all I remember is that my hair was so bleached and short that I had open wounds on my scalp. Oh, the price you pay for fame.
• [2012, on Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1990)] I was a non-union extra for 19 days. And on the last day, I told them they were going to give me my Screen Actors Guild card or they were going to have to reshoot the scene without me, but I was going to get it. And the first assistant director told me I was never going to work again. But look at me now!

Interesting Facts about Matthew Lillard

1. One younger sister, Amy Lillard.
2. Daughter Addison Grace was born June 13, 2002 in Los Angeles.
3. Scooby-Doo (2002) was his 4th movie with Freddie Prinze Jr..
4. Essentially started his career playing the son of a sadistic killer (Kathleen Turner in Serial Mom (1994)), and then played a sadistic killer himself in Scream (1996).
5. Was classmates with Paul Rudd at American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
6. Attended Fullerton College in Fullerton, California, for a brief time with the theater department.
7. As of 2004, Matthew has worked (co-starred) with actor Freddie Prinze Jr. five times: Wing Commander (1999), Summer Catch (2001), She's All That (1999), Scooby-Doo (2002) and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).
8. Second daughter, Macey Lyn, was born October 19, 2004 in Los Angeles.
9. Attended Foothill High School in Tustin, California.
10. Third child: son Liam born in April 2008.
11. Christopher McDonald played Matthew Lillard's father in two movies...Spooner (2009) and SLC Punk! (1998).
12. Enjoys playing video games. Especially FIFA.
13. Lillard became the official voice of Shaggy Rogers after Casey Kasem retired from the role in 2009. He and Kasem collaborated for the first time on the series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010), wherein Lillard portrayed Shaggy and Kasem portrayed Shaggy's father, Colton.
14. Alumnus of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1990.