Will Ferrell
American Comedian, Born July 16, 1967
“I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.”
“Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don’t know.”
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.”
“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.”
“Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.”
“It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.”
“Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.”
“Immature is aword boring people use to describe fun people.”
“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!.”
“I guess destiny is not the path given to us but the path we choose for ourselves.”
“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.”
“I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.”
“'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.”
“James Caan told me at the end of filming ‘Elf’ that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny – and I never was.”
“I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.”
“I’m a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers – who, oddly enough, wouldn’t get elected today – were Progressives.”
“Personal philosophy: Clothing optional.”
“I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.”
“Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.”
“I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.”
“I’m a really good swimmer.”
