Chris Gethard famous quotes

04-17-2025

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.
-- Chris Gethard

#Growing Up #Heart #Creativity
The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.
-- Chris Gethard

#World #Entertainment #Projects
If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.
-- Chris Gethard

#New York #Glasses #Comedian
I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.
-- Chris Gethard

#Father #Math #Numbers
If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.
-- Chris Gethard

#People #Want #Impossible
I just like testing myself. I just have that thing in me. Whatever it is that people tell me I can't do, I've gotta try it.
-- Chris Gethard

#People #Trying #Testing
The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos
-- Chris Gethard

#Chaos #Middle
I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.
-- Chris Gethard

#Stars #Years #Host
The Internet seems like a safe house for the opposite mentality, for cynics and for jerks and for people who want to lash out. And it's a valid thing. It's a valid forum and I'm not going say that they aren't valid feelings. But it's sad. Considering the potential that something like the Internet, that connects so many people, has for good. I think it's sad that it's used so often for nothing but unfounded, overzealous negativity...
-- Chris Gethard

#Thinking #Opposites #People
The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."
-- Chris Gethard

#People #Advice #Surprise
I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.
-- Chris Gethard

#Thinking #Looks #Life Is
Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.
-- Chris Gethard

#Crush #Fun #Lying
I was that kid who did every activity when I was in high school. There wasn't a day that I didn't stay after school to do something. I just had my hands in everything. And I was similarly very, very angry. I was an angry little guy.
-- Chris Gethard

#School #Kids #Hands
If I could have enough money that I know I could buy a house someday, and if I want to have kids, I could raise them - I don't need the money grab. I don't need to have a mansion. I just need to be creative and happy.
-- Chris Gethard

#Kids #House #Creative

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