Ferrell Quotes & Sayings

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

It was important that I experience disappointments and work for what I wanted, for it to have meaning. Besides, if life always comes easily, there would be very little passion to pour into one's work. — Miralee Ferrell

I'd say I'm pretty messy. NOT dirty though - there's a difference. Messy people leave clothes on their bedroom floor ... dirty people leave pizza boxes. — Nikki Ferrell

I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song — 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 did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker. — 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 used to have an afro - like Will Ferrell in 'Semi-Pro.' It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool. — Liam Hemsworth

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

It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder ... why didn't I get this sooner? — Ellen DeGeneres

I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just this crazy and get naked and run through the thing screaming. That's just not my style; my style is drama or - I'm not slapstick. — Mekhi Phifer

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

We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes was always trying to strike me out, and meantime, I was always trying to hit a home run off him. — Rick 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

My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool. — 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

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

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

Enjoy the little fun things - like taking your kids to school - before they're all grown up. — Will Ferrell

I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original. — 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 still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer. — 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

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot. — Will Ferrell

Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy. — Tina Fey

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

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

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

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

When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything. — Will Ferrell

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

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

I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.' — Seth Rogen

Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not. — Taika Waititi

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

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.
Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don't want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I mean, who in their right mind in a choice between pancakes and living chooses pancakes?
Dr. Jules Hilbert: Harold, if you pause to think, you'd realize that that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led ... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes. — Zach Helm

When I think about the fact that I get to work with stars like Will Ferrell or Kurt Russell my eyes fill with tears of joy and appreciation. I hope the ride keeps going. — Erick Chavarria

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business. — Will Ferrell

I like working. I wish I could say I made a deliberate choice to comedy, but it's just what came my way. It's what the studios wanted to make. Some of my friends were doing it, like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and they offered me 'Talladega Nights.' It's just nice work if you can get it. It's a joyful day at work, making your friends laugh. — John C. Reilly

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

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

My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog — 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

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

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

I'm just a big, hairy, American winning machine! — 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

The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest
crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child.
Will Ferrell is a man. — Meryl Streep

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better. — Adam McKay

You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up. — Dax Shepard

When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes. — Aubrey Plaza

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

I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself. — 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

I'm a goofball, so I think comedy is one of my stronger points, as an actor. I just never get to do it. But, I'm taking classes at Groundlings, where Will Ferrell and Lisa Kudrow studied, and it's all improv comedy. It feels good to be able to do that and be funny. — Tinsel Korey

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

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

The future vibrated with uncertainty. I had failed. I had ignorance. I had hope. — Sean Ferrell

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen. — Todd Phillips

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

I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look! — 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 don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks. — 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

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny. — Jaimie Alexander

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

dwelling. A soul built up in God will think, act and bear fruit after God. The natural man or the Christian, who has not been spiritually edified, will think, — Ana Mendez Ferrell

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

Hey! Remember the '90s?
The Clintons were in office, everybody was using AOL, Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri did "the Cheerleaders" on SNL, and everybody thought Oasis was fantastic.
In hindsight, we were all a bunch of potato-salad-eating jackasses. — Julie Klausner

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

Never reach for the knuckleball; I just let it come to me. — Rick Ferrell

I shouldn't have called out Will Ferrell, but I am getting a little fed up with these people.You want to support Bernie [Sanders], knock yourself out. Does he know what Bernie stands for? Does he know what Bernie wants? And I submit to you, he doesn't. — Bill O'Reilly

In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably 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

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

'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 don't know how to be like a Bill Murray or a Will Ferrell, these guys who know how to make a line funny just by, I don't know, some extra-sense perception. I only know character and emotion and real acting; that's all I know how to do. — John C. Reilly

Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius. — Erick Chavarria

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

I offer you a fable for our times...
A magic box sits in your pocket with all the knowledge and music and entertainment of the world contained within it.
If you opened this box and looked down into it...
...How could you ever possibly look up again?
- Larry Ferrell (Unfollow) — Rob Williams

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

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

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

Love is a pie and I am lucky enough to have almost every flavor in mine. — Carolyn Ferrell

You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor. Like Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell got that kind of humor. — Redman

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