Matthew Broderick Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

I think there is some stigma when you're playing a love scene... with somebody who you don't really know very well.

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

Trivia

Matthew's hobbies include watching spectator sports, bowling, paddle ball, and pingpong.

Matt's dentist once sent Matt a stripper on his birthday.

Matt was actually the first choice to play Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties, but he didn't want to be committed to a long television run so Michael J. Fox took the role instead.

Matt is Polish on his mother's side and Irish on his father's side.

Matt is the son of actor James Broderick and Patricia Broderick both of whom are deceased.

Matthew played the leading role Ferris Bueller in the 1986 smash-hit Ferris Bueller's Day Off.