Will Ferrell Quotes & Sayings

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

If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family. — Will Ferrell

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

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

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

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

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

I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along. — Will Ferrell

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

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

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

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

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously. — Will Ferrell

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

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do. — Will Ferrell

On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because they love the script. A smaller budget sort of unifies everyone; it's a real team effort and that's amazing. But these opportunities just don't present themselves that often for me, so basically any chance I get to do something different I jump on it. — Will Ferrell

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. — Will Ferrell

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

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time. — Will Ferrell

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school. — Will Ferrell

It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are always gonna lead me to go for the amazing project where I'm being paid in Turkish cantaloupes. — Will Ferrell

My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that. — Will Ferrell

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

In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it. — Will Ferrell

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer. — Will Ferrell

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

Everyone I know who skis is dead. — Will Ferrell

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

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

A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read. — Will Ferrell

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

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

I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life. — Will Ferrell

In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors ... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day. — Will Ferrell

I'm in a glass case of emotion — Will Ferrell

If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be? — Will Ferrell

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

When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons - it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn't wait. I loved it so much. — Will Ferrell

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.' — Will Ferrell

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

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

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

Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac. — Will Ferrell

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

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

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

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder. — Will Ferrell

But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye ... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need. — Will Ferrell

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

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

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

I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore. — Will Ferrell

When you hear that you're going to be working with a first-time director, sometimes that can be a concern to people. — Will Ferrell

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

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

You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you're doing something. It's invaluable to have. — Will Ferrell

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

There's nothing sexy about Orange County. — Will Ferrell

I'm a really good swimmer. — Will Ferrell

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

What's the point of being bad when there's nothing good to stop you? — Will Ferrell

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

'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

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

Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself. — Will Ferrell

Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, 'Ohhh-kaaay.' — Will Ferrell

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

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

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt. — Will Ferrell

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

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. — Will Ferrell

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

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it. — Will Ferrell

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

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. — Will Ferrell

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe? — Will Ferrell

I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food. — Will Ferrell

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

Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet. — Will Ferrell

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

Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired. — Will Ferrell

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well. — Will Ferrell

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life — Will Ferrell

When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was funny!' But when it flips, people can get really thrown by it. — Will Ferrell

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job. — Will Ferrell

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives. — Will Ferrell

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny. — Will Ferrell

I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not. — Will Ferrell

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

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

I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie - heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role. — Will Ferrell

Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do? — Will Ferrell

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

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

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