“My father passed away very peacefully last night at the fantastic age of 86 years old. He kept moving, working and making us happy until the very end. We loved him so very much!” Hope Mulbarger said to Fox News on Saturday. “We will miss him forever.”

Willard was a talented comedic performer beloved by many. He rose to fame acting in Christopher Guests’s “mockumentaries” including This Is Spinal Tap and Best in Show. He is known by other fans as a frequent guest star on Everybody Loves Raymond. More recently, you might have seen his appearance as an eccentric organ player on Portlandia or his work with comedians Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.

In addition to being gifted when it came to comedic acting, Willard also had no trouble penning his own quips. Here are TKTK of some of his most memorable bon mots. If they make you make you smile as you read, that’s a wonderful testimony to the legend of the man.

On Christopher Guest

“I don’t know why my lines that were cut from the film didn’t make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I’m kidding. I’m only trying to help.”

On improvisation

“In several TV shows I’ve done, I’m trying to think of what - just say something here, we need something funnier here.”

On good directors

“A good director is someone who makes you feel like you are moving forward,” Willard told a reporter in an interview with Esquire.

On good luck

“It’s such an amazing pleasure to work in these movies. It’s almost like it’s not happening at all.”

On the difference between sketch and improv

“I have friends who will say, ‘Oh you gotta come and see our show.’ And the first thing I say is, ‘Is it sketch or improv?’ I’ll go in a minute to see a sketch show. I love sketch; it’s my favorite form. But if it’s all improv, they’re either very good and it’s annoying how good they are and it makes you feel bad, or they’re not too good then you’re sweating for them. And you don’t want to sweat for them, see actors repeating each other’s lines.”

On the ensemble

“It’s more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can’t prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off.”

On aging

“Suddenly you’re like a pirate, you’re 65 years old and you’ve got an earring.”