Top 120 Will Ferrell Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I’m still at work.”

— Will Ferrell

52. “I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.”

— Will Ferrell

53. “The funny guy doesn’t get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn’t have.”

— Will Ferrell

54. “I left ‘Saturday Night Live’ without a film to go to, and I’d filmed ‘Old School’ while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn’t come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.”

— Will Ferrell

55. “I’m the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It’s like, ‘OK, I can just read a book.’”

— Will Ferrell

56. “My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog.”

— Will Ferrell

57. “I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard.”

— Will Ferrell

58. “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

59. “I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.”

— Will Ferrell

60. “I love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it’s not so much trying to be funny, it’s trying to be real in a messed up context. That’s comedy to me.”

— Will Ferrell

61. “Aren’t we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?”

— Will Ferrell

62. “I’m a selective pack rat. There’s some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.”

— Will Ferrell

63. “Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.”

— Will Ferrell

64. “I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I’ve done several years down the road when it’s on cable, i’ll just watch and sadly laugh along.”

— Will Ferrell

65. “When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.”

— Will Ferrell

66. “You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you’re doing something. It’s invaluable to have.”

— Will Ferrell

67. “I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, ‘Look at that idiot!’ That’s how I got over being shy.”

— Will Ferrell

68. “I’m a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking – mostly Thai food.”

— Will Ferrell

69. “What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?”

— Will Ferrell

70. “Often times I’m confronted with a quote that I don’t remember saying. So, on one hand it’s very flattering, it is just so surreal.”

— Will Ferrell

71. “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

72. “I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it’s not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don’t know them.”

— Will Ferrell

73. “I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, ‘What a gross place that really is.’”

— Will Ferrell

74. “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

75. “I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.”

— Will Ferrell

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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

79. “I think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye’s doing what he’s doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He’s just gifted.”

— Will Ferrell

80. “I’ve got no dark secrets, I wasn’t beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that’s where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.”

— Will Ferrell

81. “I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It’s my obligation to share it with the world.”

— Will Ferrell

82. “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

83. “Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.”

— Will Ferrell

84. “I would think beer and football go hand in hand.”

— Will Ferrell

85. “Enjoy the little fun things – like taking your kids to school – before they’re all grown up.”

— Will Ferrell

86. “I often don’t think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.”

— Will Ferrell

87. “Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.”

— Will Ferrell

88. “There’s always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.”

— Will Ferrell

89. “I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.”

— Will Ferrell

90. “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

91. “In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it.”

— Will Ferrell

92. “New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.”

— Will Ferrell

93. “Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.”

— Will Ferrell

94. “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

95. “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

96. “I’ve always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.”

— Will Ferrell

97. “I don’t really think in absolutes.”

— Will Ferrell

98. “Black, white, yellow, brown – we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen.”

— Will Ferrell

99. “I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.”

— Will Ferrell

100. “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