Top 120 Chris Hardwick Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They’re creative consumers.”

— Chris Hardwick

102. “I don’t really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn’t a lot to be gained from it.”

— Chris Hardwick

103. “I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don’t care if anybody else gets it.”

— Chris Hardwick

104. “I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, “You’re not a nerd!” because I think they think of the classic Revenge Of The Nerds archetype.”

— Chris Hardwick

105. “I learned not to confuse ‘busy’ with ‘productive,’ but I’m still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles.”

— Chris Hardwick

106. “I’m not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.”

— Chris Hardwick

107. “When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don’t think about what you’re building.”

— Chris Hardwick

108. “There’s a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They’re magical in that way.”

— Chris Hardwick

109. “The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.”

— Chris Hardwick

110. “I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you’ll see how Southern I can be.”

— Chris Hardwick

111. “American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn’t work; obviously, in the case of ‘The Office,’ it did. But a lot of times, it doesn’t really work.”

— Chris Hardwick

112. “Any time you’re lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it’s a good thing.”

— Chris Hardwick

113. “Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.”

— Chris Hardwick

114. “Choosing one thing usually doesn’t mean killing all of the other options forever. Oftentimes, you can always go back and change your mind if you want. If not, and you realize the decision did not pan out the way you had hoped, you now have a lesson for future decisions.”

— Chris Hardwick

115. “Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?”

— Chris Hardwick

116. “I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live.”

— Chris Hardwick

117. “The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice – a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.”

— Chris Hardwick

118. “Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.”

— Chris Hardwick

119. “Comic-Con is interesting because there’s so much going on at once, it’s literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds.”

— Chris Hardwick

120. “There’s something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.”

— Chris Hardwick

121. “I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.”

— Chris Hardwick

122. “It’s funny: when I first started getting vocal about how much I liked ‘Doctor Who,’ I didn’t realize how deep the fan base was.”

— Chris Hardwick

123. “As someone who’s very nerd-minded, whenever I see a lot of cross-platform stuff when I get bonus material on either side, then it makes me want to dive deeper, sort of like tearing apart the different pieces of the pie.”

— Chris Hardwick

124. “Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.”

— Chris Hardwick

125. “The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.”

— Chris Hardwick

126. “Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.”

— Chris Hardwick

127. “Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.”

— Chris Hardwick

128. “I began to more fully embrace the trying of new skills when I asked myself, “Would I rather protect my ego or do stuff in life?”

— Chris Hardwick

129. “I’ve seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show you how pervasive this stuff has become in our culture. It really is an ideology that you can subscribe to now.”

— Chris Hardwick

130. “The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It’s just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.”

— Chris Hardwick

131. “When you look at your freelance career, it’s really like a mall. And if you look at a mall, it’s a self-contained system that has a flow and logic to it. You’ll probably have one or two really bigger jobs, those are like your anchor stores.”

— Chris Hardwick

132. “As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I’m genuinely interested in the people I’m talking to.”

— Chris Hardwick

133. “I’ve always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam – esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears.”

— Chris Hardwick

134. “Just as someone who’s been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don’t care about the answers.”

— Chris Hardwick

135. “Don’t tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.”

— Chris Hardwick

136. “There are Nerds, and then there are Nerdists. A Nerdist is, more specifically, an artful Nerd. He or she doesn’t just consume, he or she creates and innovates.”

— Chris Hardwick