Top 100 Neil Patrick Harris Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

2. “I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don’t care much about what others think of them.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

3. “We’re blessed on ‘How I Met Your Mother’ to feel like we’re doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

4. “But magic is like pizza: even when it’s bad, it’s pretty good.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

5. “Love is awesome and endless, but it is constantly changing its form. You love something for what it is, then it changes. But that change can make you love it even more.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

6. “I have an unbelievable assistant who handles all of my scheduling! It’s like a Tetris game.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

7. “I’m wildly impressed with the diversity of gay roles.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

8. “I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn’t really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

9. “I’m not the best cruise ship crooner. I’m not the best karaoke guy.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

10. “I like to make decisions based on things I’m interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

11. “Sometimes as a doctor, the best treatment is no treatment at all. But today was definitely not one of those times. RIP, van full of senior citizens. Next time I’ll use medicine.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

12. “I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that – it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

13. “Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

14. “My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

15. “I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

16. “I would not dream of taking on Tobey Maguire. Plus, he’s a talented and nice guy, and I have nothing but nice things to say about him.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

17. “Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

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18. “I think flirting is great fun. It doesn’t mean that anything’s going to come of it but it’s fun to be told that you’re hot and that your tits look great. You all get your pens out.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

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19. “American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

20. “I don’t want to have to inadvertently find a gift and go like, “What the hell is – – oh no, that’s for me.” And then have to pretend like I’m surprised later. I won’t look. If I know where they’re hidden, I will not look. I love presents and I hate faking surprises.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

21. “I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I’d give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

22. “I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

23. “Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?”

— Neil Patrick Harris

24. “Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it’s also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

25. “I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it’s fun to have some complications there.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

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26. “I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another ‘Smurfs’ shout-out for that demographic.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

27. “I’m having a ball. I just walk in, make some funnies and walk out, no pressure.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

28. “I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

29. “I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

30. “For me, magic can be a story, a game, a puzzle, or a surprise that takes my breath away in a single, furious gulp.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

31. “May I suggest a drinking game where everytime I do a ridiculously long awkward blink, someone does a shot of some kind of alcohol?”

— Neil Patrick Harris

32. “You can’t just put gay in a little gay box anymore.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

33. “I’m a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, ’cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

34. “Chef’s choice is my favorite. I’m super adventurous.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

35. “Babies laughing is like opium.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

36. “I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I’m a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

37. “What defines a relationship is the work that’s involved to maintain it, and it’s constantly changing.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

38. “I don’t stay up and rent private jets and go on yachts and whoop it up in Miami.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

39. “This next presenter is so lovely you could eat her up with a spoon.”

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40. “Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater – to see reflections of our confounded humanity – the theater has lost its way.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

41. “I’m lucky that people believe me when I’m in character.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

42. “To the kids, David is “Daddy” and you’re “Papa”. You find it a more convenient system of nomenclature than “Daddy 1” and “Daddy 2”, or “Sinners A and B.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

43. “It was so shiny.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

44. “I’m a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I’m proud of how the nation is steering toward that.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

45. “I’m shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it’s probably good – I get to go home and sleep.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

46. “I’ve been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I’m working on my double back flip right now.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

47. “I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

48. “As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

49. “In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.”

— Neil Patrick Harris

50. “Babies just change everything. You have to become super selfless and super tired and super amenable to change. They just change all the time.”

— Neil Patrick Harris