Top 40 Rob Corddry Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.”

— Rob Corddry

2. “If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.”

— Rob Corddry

3. “Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I’ll turn it into an obsession.”

— Rob Corddry

4. “Why should I be feeling tension? It’s The Daily Show.”

— Rob Corddry

5. “I didn’t hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.”

— Rob Corddry

6. “The head writer loves that my character is a boor.”

— Rob Corddry

7. “My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.”

— Rob Corddry

8. “I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I’m like, “Eh, I made it this far.””

— Rob Corddry

9. “I just want to do cool stuff.”

— Rob Corddry

10. “My job was basically to look at a good friend completely naked and rub lotion on her back. I was naked too, but I got to put a towel on almost immediately. So I was like, “Well, this is going to be embarrassing, but it’s also going to be kinda awesome.””

— Rob Corddry

11. “I’ve always wanted to be an actor. I didn’t get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn’t choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.”

— Rob Corddry

12. “If people see me in some sort of niche, then that’s fine. As long as it’s not The Naked Guy, I don’t care.”

— Rob Corddry

13. “I’ve got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.”

— Rob Corddry

14. “If anything, there’s more at stake when you’re older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.”

— Rob Corddry

15. “I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I’ll do it for a while. I’ll just quit if it’s stupid.”

— Rob Corddry

16. “Apparently it’s cool to watch The Daily Show.”

— Rob Corddry

17. “It looks like garbage, my ass. But trust me, you’re lucky it’s not full-frontal.”

— Rob Corddry

18. “I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.”

— Rob Corddry

19. “I have to stay true to myself.”

— Rob Corddry

20. “I don’t like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.”

— Rob Corddry

21. “I don’t feel rivalry. I’m the least competitive person you’ll meet ever, to a fault.”

— Rob Corddry

22. “As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that’s as adventuresome as I got.”

— Rob Corddry

23. “The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.”

— Rob Corddry

24. “If it’s January, I’m dead in three hours. But in June, I’d be hungry, but I’d make it out. I’d find my way without a map or compass. I say that with confidence. I can build a fire without a match.”

— Rob Corddry

25. “I want to manufacture a feud.”

— Rob Corddry

26. “Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you’re really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.”

— Rob Corddry

27. “I get all of my comedy from CNN.”

— Rob Corddry

28. “You’re encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you’ll have more control over what you do.”

— Rob Corddry

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29. “The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You’re going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.”

— Rob Corddry

30. “I don’t know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.”

— Rob Corddry

31. “I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you’ll never win one.”

— Rob Corddry

32. “This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.”

— Rob Corddry

33. “People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they’re not exactly sure what that sensibility is.”

— Rob Corddry

34. “Pat OBrien knows nothing. Hes on the Hell express.”

— Rob Corddry

35. “I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage.”

— Rob Corddry

36. “I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn’t want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.”

— Rob Corddry

37. “I didn’t really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.”

— Rob Corddry

38. “I’ve always defined myself as a writer, I’ve never decided what it was I was gonna write. I always fancied myself one, but I’m not. I’m so far from a writer.”

— Rob Corddry

39. “Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.”

— Rob Corddry

40. “I really think of it – acting and writing and producing, whatever – as shipping. You gotta ship. Put the widget together in the easiest, quickest way possible and ship the product.”

— Rob Corddry

41. “I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.”

— Rob Corddry