Nathan Fielder Quotes

#1. I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

Nathan Fielder

#2. I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily ... I'm just not one of those people.

Nathan Fielder

#3. I agree that someone falling down is really funny, and I can go on YouTube and watch people falling. It makes me laugh.

Nathan Fielder

#4. A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

Nate Silver

#5. I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.

Nathan Fielder

#6. Any time a little midget does something like this, you gotta give him a 10!.

Charles Barkley

#7. I've never had a fear of traveling and going to a new place. I adapt.

Naomi Campbell

#8. I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

Nathan Fielder

#9. In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge

Peter Drucker

#10. If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.

Nathan Fielder

#11. Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

Nathan Fielder

#12. People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

Warren Farrell

#13. Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

Nathan Fielder

#14. I'd like to take a long walk, to the edge of something.

Arthur K. Flam

#15. We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.

Chris Prentiss

#16. Some of the funniest things are just situations in life that are funny. The way people interact. People describing their first kiss with someone, to me, is really funny. When someone goes into detail about each moment of that, I really find that enjoyable to listen to.

Nathan Fielder

#17. If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

Nathan Fielder

#18. In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

Nathan Fielder

#19. I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.

Nathan Fielder

#20. The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.

Nathan Fielder

#21. I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

Nathan Fielder

#22. It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.

Nathan Fielder

#23. It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

Nathan Fielder

#24. I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

Nathan Fielder

#25. In my personal life, I will do whatever it takes to make a situation comfortable if I sense - if I'm talking to someone [and] I sense there's a silence, I'll try to fill that gap. It makes me very anxious when things get uncomfortable.

Nathan Fielder

#26. I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

Nathan Fielder

#27. An excessive preponderance of an idealistic mood is harmful to society: it creates daydreaming, political Don Quixotism, hope for heavenly intervention. This is an undeniable truth
but it is also true that every extreme is harmful.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#28. There's a certain level of comfort that comes when you move in together. The mystery is gone. She starts dressing for bed in your pajamas, cream on her face, Uggs, curlers. What happened to the sexy girl that used to come to bed in lingerie? The girl says, 'We don't need to act.'

Marlon Wayans

#29. Everyone's default state is this pleasantry state. My goal in the show is to undercut that as quickly as possible. If you really do let it sit, it's sometimes amazing what comes out of people.

Nathan Fielder

#30. But there was always work to be done. We spent our lives making livings.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#31. Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there.

Shelby Harris

#32. I do love doing stunts; I was in a film called 'The Quiet Ones,' which was quite a spooky film, and I had to be hung upside down, which was good.

Erin Richards

#33. Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.

Nathan Fielder

#34. A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

Nathan Fielder