Top 100 Will Ferrell Quotes
#1. I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.
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#2. I would think beer and football go hand in hand.
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#3. I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!
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#4. I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song
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#5. If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?
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#6. Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.
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#7. I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.
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#8. Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.
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#9. Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time
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#10. If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.
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#11. I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.
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#13. I'm just a big, hairy, American winning machine!
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#14. When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.
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#15. I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'
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#16. I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along.
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#17. It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are always gonna lead me to go for the amazing project where I'm being paid in Turkish cantaloupes.
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#18. I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.
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#19. I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.
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#20. My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog
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#21. I've always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.
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#23. I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.
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#24. Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.
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#25. I think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.
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#26. One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.
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#27. I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.
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#28. It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.
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#29. A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.
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#30. I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.
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#31. I had never supported a political figure - and I went out and supported Obama.
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#32. When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
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#33. I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
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#34. New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.
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#35. I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.
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#37. I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.
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#38. You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn't a masterpiece.
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#39. Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.
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#40. In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.
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#41. I'm a Cancer; I'm music-passionate. I like long walks on the beach.
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#42. I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.
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#43. I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.
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#44. All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
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#45. I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.
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#46. I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to song. I will be driving along and I will be like, "That should be my karaoke song!" and then I forget what song it is.
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#47. You know you can be having a bad day and someone will walk by and say: 'Hey, I love you, Will.' That really cheers you up. That's a really lovely thing.
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#48. I guess destiny is not the path given to us but the path we choose for ourselves.
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#49. That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.
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#50. I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work
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#51. I just kind of have a comedic looking body, I guess. If anything I really have to exercise just to not look too fudgy, otherwise I would just keep going and going.
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#52. Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.
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#53. I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.
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#54. Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
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#55. I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.
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#56. The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.
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#57. It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have.
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#58. I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.
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#59. What's the point of being bad when there's nothing good to stop you?
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#60. Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.'
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#61. I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.
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#62. Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.
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#63. I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.
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#64. James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
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#65. No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.
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#66. It doesn't really exist, this Frat Pack. We run into each other on occasions and we all like each other's films, I guess, but there isn't some big funny restaurant or bar where we all hang out. At least, if there is, they haven't invited me.
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#67. Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.
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#68. There's a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.
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#69. A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.
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#70. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.
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#71. Once a person has a child, the first question everyone asks is: "Are you going to have more children?" But it basically means: "Are you going to have more sex with your wife in the hopes of having children?
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#72. I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.
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#73. For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there's a base level of, 'O.K., I think I'm decently funny.' But unless you just have some massive ego, I really think you're still fighting against that.
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#74. Every time I do a partnership with the corporation, it's usually - I mean, it is - reflective of me and they really want who I am. They want what I've established for my brand and the respect and quality that I've established.
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#75. I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.
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#76. I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.
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#77. The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!
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#79. I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.
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#80. There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.
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#81. Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.
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#82. I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'
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#83. America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.
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#84. As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.
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#85. Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac.
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#86. Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.
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#87. It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.
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#88. I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.
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#89. If you are going to wrestle a bear, try to stay away from all fish oil products, you know. I mean it's tough for me, because I love to rub myself with salmon oil every day - it's a great conditioner for the hair, skin.
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#90. No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.
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#91. I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.
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#93. I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent, characters that refuse to grow up. And yet, if you look back in the history of comedy all the way back to the Marx brothers, that's a big part of comedy.
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#94. Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know
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#95. When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?
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#96. I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.
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#97. In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors ... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day.
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#98. You know, when I'm looking at these '08 yachts that are for sale, I think "I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht."
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#99. I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.
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#100. You definitely feel a little exposed, because some of your friends call you like, "Man, I need that much."
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