Top 120 Chris Hardwick Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If you do a joke that’s really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, ‘Real original, you’re just doing old jokes!’ But bands do it all the time.”

— Chris Hardwick

102. “Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.”

— Chris Hardwick

103. “I think when I look out and I see there’s so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that’s one view of the world. But you don’t have to always focus on that view of the world.”

— Chris Hardwick

104. “When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there’s a certain gene, in every comedian. It’s why we get hyper-analytical about things.”

— Chris Hardwick

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

— Chris Hardwick

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

— Chris Hardwick

107. “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

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

— Chris Hardwick

109. “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

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

— Chris Hardwick

111. “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

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

— Chris Hardwick

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Chris Hardwick

116. “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

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

— Chris Hardwick

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Chris Hardwick

121. “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

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

— 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. “The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.”

— Chris Hardwick

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

— Chris Hardwick

126. “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

127. “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

128. “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

129. “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

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

— Chris Hardwick

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

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