Top 100 Ferrell Quotes
#1. When I think about the fact that I get to work with stars like Will Ferrell or Kurt Russell my eyes fill with tears of joy and appreciation. I hope the ride keeps going.
Erick Chavarria
#2. Hey! Remember the '90s?
The Clintons were in office, everybody was using AOL, Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri did "the Cheerleaders" on SNL, and everybody thought Oasis was fantastic.
In hindsight, we were all a bunch of potato-salad-eating jackasses.
Julie Klausner
#3. Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy.
Tina Fey
#4. I'm a goofball, so I think comedy is one of my stronger points, as an actor. I just never get to do it. But, I'm taking classes at Groundlings, where Will Ferrell and Lisa Kudrow studied, and it's all improv comedy. It feels good to be able to do that and be funny.
Tinsel Korey
#5. Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.
Adam McKay
#6. I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'
Seth Rogen
#7. Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.
Taika Waititi
#8. It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder ... why didn't I get this sooner?
Ellen DeGeneres
#9. I offer you a fable for our times...
A magic box sits in your pocket with all the knowledge and music and entertainment of the world contained within it.
If you opened this box and looked down into it...
...How could you ever possibly look up again?
- Larry Ferrell (Unfollow)
Rob Williams
#10. I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.
Robert Osborne
#11. I don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do.
John C. Reilly
#12. The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest
crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child.
Will Ferrell is a man.
Meryl Streep
#13. You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor. Like Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell got that kind of humor.
Redman
#14. Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.
Jaimie Alexander
#15. When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, the Wayans, Adam Sandler - they get it. And I've always felt that Andy Samberg is the future of comedy.
Terry Crews
#16. Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.
Erick Chavarria
#17. I used to have an afro - like Will Ferrell in 'Semi-Pro.' It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.
Liam Hemsworth
#18. I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just this crazy and get naked and run through the thing screaming. That's just not my style; my style is drama or - I'm not slapstick.
Mekhi Phifer
#20. There's always something interesting about comedy teams that have the exact same energy. The one time I really noticed that was Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in 'Step Brothers.'
Scott Aukerman
#21. I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza.
Henry Rollins
#22. I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.
Todd Phillips
#23. Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.
Michael Keaton
#24. I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
Viggo Mortensen
#25. Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.
Jason Bateman
#26. Will Ferrell is just about the nicest guy - anyone can tell you that.
Peter Dinklage
#27. We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
Adam McKay
#28. Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.
Noah Baumbach
#29. I shouldn't have called out Will Ferrell, but I am getting a little fed up with these people.You want to support Bernie [Sanders], knock yourself out. Does he know what Bernie stands for? Does he know what Bernie wants? And I submit to you, he doesn't.
Bill O'Reilly
#30. 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.
Will Ferrell
#31. I would think beer and football go hand in hand.
Will Ferrell
#32. I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard
Will Ferrell
#33. I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!
Will Ferrell
#34. I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song
Will Ferrell
#35. If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?
Will Ferrell
#36. Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.
Will Ferrell
#37. I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.
Will Ferrell
#38. Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.
Will Ferrell
#39. When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was funny!' But when it flips, people can get really thrown by it.
Will Ferrell
#40. 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.
Will Ferrell
#41. Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.
Will Ferrell
#42. 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
Will Ferrell
#43. You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.
Will Ferrell
#44. If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.
Will Ferrell
#45. I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.
Will Ferrell
#47. A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
Will Ferrell
#48. I'm just a big, hairy, American winning machine!
Will Ferrell
#49. Too many leaders assume that the role of leadership is to control.
Jim Ferrell
#50. Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.
Will Ferrell
#51. 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.
Will Ferrell
#52. 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.'
Will Ferrell
#53. 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.
Will Ferrell
#54. 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.
Will Ferrell
#55. I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.
Will Ferrell
#56. 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.
Will Ferrell
#57. My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog
Will Ferrell
#59. I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.
Will Ferrell
#60. I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.
Will Ferrell
#61. 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.
Will Ferrell
#62. I've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.
Will Ferrell
#63. I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.
Will Ferrell
#64. You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.
Will Ferrell
#66. I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.
Will Ferrell
#67. I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.
Will Ferrell
#68. 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.
Will Ferrell
#69. 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.
Will Ferrell
#70. I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.
Will Ferrell
#71. 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.
Will Ferrell
#72. I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.
Will Ferrell
#73. I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.
Will Ferrell
#74. It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.
Will Ferrell
#75. A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.
Will Ferrell
#76. I'd say I'm pretty messy. NOT dirty though - there's a difference. Messy people leave clothes on their bedroom floor ... dirty people leave pizza boxes.
Nikki Ferrell
#77. I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.
Will Ferrell
#78. dwelling. A soul built up in God will think, act and bear fruit after God. The natural man or the Christian, who has not been spiritually edified, will think,
Ana Mendez Ferrell
#79. Love is a pie and I am lucky enough to have almost every flavor in mine.
Carolyn Ferrell
#80. I had never supported a political figure - and I went out and supported Obama.
Will Ferrell
#81. One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert
slim and none, and slim just left the building.
Will Ferrell
#82. 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.
Will Ferrell
#83. I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
Will Ferrell
#84. My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.
Will Ferrell
#85. I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.
Will Ferrell
#86. 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.
Will Ferrell
#87. I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.
Will Ferrell
#89. My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.
Will Ferrell
#90. 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.
Will Ferrell
#91. You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn't a masterpiece.
Will Ferrell
#92. Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.
Will Ferrell
#93. I hate when someone drives my car and resets all the radio presets. I don't understand it. If I was ever driving someone's car, I would never touch the things that were set.
Will Ferrell
#94. I tried to fix her but should have remembered the number one rule about fixing broken people: you always get stuck with their sharp edges.
Charity Ferrell
#95. I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor.
Will Ferrell
#97. Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?
Will Ferrell
#98. When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.
Will Ferrell
#100. Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.
Will Ferrell
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