Will Ferrell famous quotes

A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.
-- Will Ferrell

#Fashion #Stars #Rocks

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.
-- Will Ferrell

#Matter #Screw Ups #Screws

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.
-- Will Ferrell

#Marriage #Firsts #Use

My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog
-- Will Ferrell

#Wife #Enjoy #My Wife

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

#Dream #People #World

I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.
-- Will Ferrell

#Rapper #Feelings #Strange

I guess destiny is not the path given to us but the path we choose for ourselves.
-- Will Ferrell

#Destiny #Path #Given

In one of my songs, in the song on the "Why?" remix that I did with Jadakiss in 2004, I said, "Why is Bush actin' like they tryin' to get Osama? Why don't we impeach him and elect Obama?" This is in 2004 on the "Why?" remix and I said that because I really had belief that Obama was the right person to be president
-- Will Ferrell

#Song #President #Belief

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

#Real #Comedian #Actors

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

#Inspiration #Mean #Kids

I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song
-- Will Ferrell

#Song #Guitar #One Direction

I don't really think in absolutes.
-- Will Ferrell

#Thinking

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

#Drama #Thinking #Play

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

#People #Why Not #Share

I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work
-- Will Ferrell

#Home #Thinking #Iphone

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.
-- Will Ferrell

#Kids #Tvs #News

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

#Soccer #Player #Comedian

It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.
-- Will Ferrell

#Comedian #Actors #Bills

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.
-- Will Ferrell

#Creative #Want #Doe

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really
-- Will Ferrell

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life
-- Will Ferrell

#Real #Real Life #Alcohol

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

#Nice #Ideas #Littles

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

#Crazy #College #Shy

I don't know about living on an automatic pilot, but I've had times where I've decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it's what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.
-- Will Ferrell

#School #One Day #Acting

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

#Ideas #Facts #Forget

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

#Thinking #Interesting #Actors

I would think beer and football go hand in hand.
-- Will Ferrell

#Football #Beer #Thinking

I'm a really good swimmer.
-- Will Ferrell

#Swimmer

Once a person has a child, the first question everyone asks is: "Are you going to have more children?" But it basically means: "Are you going to have more sex with your wife in the hopes of having children?
-- Will Ferrell

#Sex #Children #Mean

Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.
-- Will Ferrell

#Cnn #Food Network

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.
-- Will Ferrell

#Jail #My Family #Closets

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.
-- Will Ferrell

#Thinking #Guy #Next Level

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.
-- Will Ferrell

#Dog #Decision #Screw Ups

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

#Exercise #Thinking #People

I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.
-- Will Ferrell

#Lonely #Glasses #Able

I like challenging myself. I like the challenge of rapping to fast beats, rapping to beats that are super slow, whatever. I like the challenges, so I'm not afraid to take on any piece of music and create a song to it if it feels right to me.
-- Will Ferrell

#Song #Rap #Challenges

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

#Mean #Who I Am #Quality

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.
-- Will Ferrell

#Thinking #Judging #People

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

#Artist #Looks #Legends

Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye West, and Lil' Wayne, and different people expressing their way of evolving in hip-hop. In the evolution of hip-hop, they're doing different things. And you've seen hip-hop have more of a global presence and impact on the world.
-- Will Ferrell

#Artist #Impact #People

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

#Artist #World #Bob

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

#Song #Writing #Thinking

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

#Rap #Gangsta #Would Be

Ijust had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and they loved it. And then they went back to tell me that Electric Circus, if it came out at today, it would've had a different reception. One of them told me, "Hey, man. You need to bring it out again." And I said, "Hey, it's cool. It is what it is."
-- Will Ferrell

#Men #Mind #Different

You definitely feel a little exposed, because some of your friends call you like, "Man, I need that much."
-- Will Ferrell

#Men #Needs #Littles

Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen
-- Will Ferrell

#Thinking #Yellow #White

I had never supported a political figure - and I went out and supported Obama.
-- Will Ferrell

#Political #Figures

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

#Exercise #Thinking #Acting

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

#Guitar #Hip Hop #Soul

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

#Fun #Thinking #Too Much

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

#Trying #Way #Want

I'm a panicked karaoke participant because I am always searching for a song in the moment. I don't have my go to song. I will be driving along and I will be like, "That should be my karaoke song!" and then I forget what song it is.
-- Will Ferrell

#Song #Karaoke #Driving

I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.
-- Will Ferrell

#Artist #Creating #Feelings

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd, because that was new music for me. I really hadn't been up on them. I mean, I'd heard of them, but I wasn't up on their music. And I kept listening to Radiohead, and I was like, Man, I want to make hip-hop that feels like Radiohead. I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together.
-- Will Ferrell

#Mean #Men #Guitar

I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.
-- Will Ferrell

#Song #Able #Sound

You know, when I'm looking at these '08 yachts that are for sale, I think "I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht."
-- Will Ferrell

#Thinking #Cash #Tables

I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.
-- Will Ferrell

#School #Night #Water

'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.
-- Will Ferrell

#Running #New York #Holiday

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

#People #Childhood #Brain

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.
-- Will Ferrell

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

#Going Away #Trying #Want

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.
-- Will Ferrell

There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.
-- Will Ferrell

#Guy #Hills #Natural

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.
-- Will Ferrell

#Hands #Remember #Surreal

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

#Stuff #Yards #Yard Sale

I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'
-- Will Ferrell

#Mom #Kids #Thinking

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

#Couple #School #College

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

#Real #Curiosity #Way

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

#Jobs #Challenges #Desert

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

#Sex #Real #Medicine

As you set off into the world, don't be afraid to question your leaders. But don't ask too many questions at one time or that are too hard because your leaders get tired and/or cranky.
-- Will Ferrell

#Tired #Funny Graduation #Leader

I'm a Cancer; I'm music passionate. I like long walks on the beach.
-- Will Ferrell

#Beach #Cancer #Long

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

#Jobs #Congratulations #Coffee

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato
-- Will Ferrell

#Baby #Hate #Parent

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.
-- Will Ferrell

#Cotton

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.
-- Will Ferrell

#Unique #Thinking #Pressure

I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat, and I built a boat.
-- Will Ferrell

#Around The World #Boat #Handmade

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

#Rats #Problem #Packs

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.
-- Will Ferrell

#Cooking #Gourmet #Chef

I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard
-- Will Ferrell

#Jesus #Mean #Want

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.
-- Will Ferrell

#Political #Instinct

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

#Home #College #Years

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
-- Will Ferrell

#Want #Painting #Masterpiece

Immature is aword boring people use to describe fun people.
-- Will Ferrell

#Fun #People #Immature

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!
-- Will Ferrell

#Winning #Machines #Bigs

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!
-- Will Ferrell

#Cheer #Singing #Way

What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?
-- Will Ferrell

#Parent #Cookies #Santa

I just kind of have a comedic looking body, I guess. If anything I really have to exercise just to not look too fudgy, otherwise I would just keep going and going.
-- Will Ferrell

#Exercise #Looks #Body

Facebook: What's on your mind? ..Twitter: What's happening? Myspace: Where did everybody go?
-- Will Ferrell

#Mind

Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know
-- Will Ferrell

#Wall #Writing #Jail