Josh Gad famous quotes

03-30-2025

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.
-- Josh Gad

#Dream #College #Years
When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.
-- Josh Gad

#Creative #Three #Actors
When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I'm responsible for this tiny person. It's so surreal.
-- Josh Gad

#Kids #Tiny #Changing Your Life
There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.
-- Josh Gad

#Brother #Years #Differences
One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was 'South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.' 'Team America' is a work of genius to me.
-- Josh Gad

#Team #America #Top 10
I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.
-- Josh Gad
I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.
-- Josh Gad

#Comedian #Today #Feels
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
-- Josh Gad

#School #College #Speech
I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.
-- Josh Gad

#Spiritual #Religious #Wife
I think 'The Book of Mormon' has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It's something that 20 years from now people will still be talking about, hopefully. That's my goal as an artist, as a creator, as a work for hire, is to choose projects that make people think, make people talk, and make people interested in having a dialogue.
-- Josh Gad

#Book #Artist #Thinking
I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
-- Josh Gad

#Mother #Powerful #Sadness
I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.
-- Josh Gad

#Perfect #Wife #Modern Family
It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.
-- Josh Gad

#Book #Years #Fans
Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.
-- Josh Gad

#Bullying #Thinking #Identity
My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.
-- Josh Gad

#Growing Up #Mean #Kids
There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.
-- Josh Gad

#Commitment #Tv Shows #Eyebrows
How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.
-- Josh Gad

#Thinking #Hands #Trying
Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
-- Josh Gad

#Book #Opportunity #Cost
I love polarizing people.
-- Josh Gad

#People
I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.
-- Josh Gad

#Years #Comedian #Body
I was trained as a straight dramatist.
-- Josh Gad
Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
-- Josh Gad

#Taken #Joy #Hollywood
The actual truth about Gad is it's one of the original 13 tribes of Israel, so you can actually trace my lineage back to, like, those guys who had, like, a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted, they didn't have cameras back then, so none of them had TV shows.
-- Josh Gad

#Israel #Hands #Tv Shows
I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.
-- Josh Gad

#Powerful #Thinking #Stories
Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.
-- Josh Gad

#Spiritual #War #Helping Others
It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.
-- Josh Gad

#Daughter #Mother #Dream
Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.
-- Josh Gad

#Children #Mean #Talking
When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
-- Josh Gad

#Book #Shows

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