Ferrell's 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.

Will Ferrell

#2. I would think beer and football go hand in hand.

Will Ferrell

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard

Will Ferrell

#6. I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!

Will Ferrell

#7. I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song

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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. 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

#11. Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.

Will Ferrell

#12. 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.

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#13. 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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#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

Adam McKay

#18. 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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#19. 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.

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#20. 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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#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I'm in a glass case of emotion

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#25. 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.

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#26. I'm just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

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#27. Too many leaders assume that the role of leadership is to control.

Jim Ferrell

#28. 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

#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog

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#36. Everyone I know who skis is dead.

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#37. I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

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#38. 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.

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#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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.

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#42. 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

#43. You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

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#44. I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

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#45. I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.

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#46. I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.

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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. 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.

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#50. 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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#51. 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

#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.

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#55. 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

#56. I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

Will Ferrell

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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.

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#61. 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

#62. I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.

Robert Osborne

#63. In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.

Will Ferrell

#64. 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

#65. Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay with us forever.

Andrew M. Ferrell

#66. 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.

Will Ferrell

#67. 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.

Will Ferrell

#68. 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

#69. 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.

Will Ferrell

#70. But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye ... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.

Will Ferrell

#71. 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

#72. I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.

Will Ferrell

#73. What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?

Will Ferrell

#74. 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.

Will Ferrell

#75. What's the point of being bad when there's nothing good to stop you?

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#76. 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

#77. There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

Will Ferrell

#78. 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.

Will Ferrell

#79. 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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#80. You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have.

Will Ferrell

#81. 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.

Will Ferrell

#82. I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.

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#83. 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

#84. There's a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.

Will Ferrell

#85. 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.

Will Ferrell

#86. 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.

Will Ferrell

#87. It was important that I experience disappointments and work for what I wanted, for it to have meaning. Besides, if life always comes easily, there would be very little passion to pour into one's work.

Miralee Ferrell

#88. 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.

Will Ferrell

#89. 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

#90. Facebook: What's on your mind? ..Twitter: What's happening? Myspace: Where did everybody go?

Will Ferrell

#91. I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!

Will Ferrell

#92. Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

Noah Baumbach

#93. Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.

Will Ferrell

#94. There's nothing sexy about Orange County.

Will Ferrell

#95. Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac.

Will Ferrell

#96. 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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#97. 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.

Will Ferrell

#98. You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here.

Will Ferrell

#99. 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.

Will Ferrell

#100. Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.

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