Top 120 Will Ferrell Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “I’ve always associated consciousness with artists like Bob Marley or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan. You know, artists that really talked about what was going on in the world and really artists that are timeless.”

— Will Ferrell

104. “Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a family member. That would really make everyone stop and go, ‘Ohhh-kaaay.’”

— Will Ferrell

105. “A lot of the times you read something and you don’t realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.”

— Will Ferrell

106. “I’ve never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don’t know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.”

— Will Ferrell

107. “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

108. “You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.”

— Will Ferrell

109. “Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.”

— Will Ferrell

110. “I’m really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.”

— Will Ferrell

111. “It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.”

— Will Ferrell

112. “I think ‘SNL’ was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you’re very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.”

— Will Ferrell

113. “I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie – heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.”

— Will Ferrell

114. “It’s nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have.”

— Will Ferrell

115. “A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.”

— Will Ferrell

116. “I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.”

— Will Ferrell

117. “I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.”

— Will Ferrell

118. “There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.”

— Will Ferrell

119. “I think you can’t do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He’s the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.”

— Will Ferrell

120. “I had never supported a political figure – and I went out and supported Obama.”

— Will Ferrell

121. “Every time I do a partnership with the corporation, it’s usually – I mean, it is – reflective of me and they really want who I am. They want what I’ve established for my brand and the respect and quality that I’ve established.”

— Will Ferrell

122. “I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.”

— Will Ferrell

123. “It’s very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that’s so much harder.”

— Will Ferrell

124. “You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won’t go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time’s up.”

— Will Ferrell

125. “I don’t even consider myself an impressionist, really.”

— Will Ferrell

126. “I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that’s going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn’t receive it.”

— Will Ferrell

127. “I don’t really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.”

— Will Ferrell

128. “By the time I was ready for college, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.”

— Will Ferrell

129. “I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn’t seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.”

— Will Ferrell

130. “You definitely feel a little exposed, because some of your friends call you like, “Man, I need that much.””

— Will Ferrell

131. “Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music – they’re the ones that you look at as the legends.”

— Will Ferrell

132. “One of my first memories of being a kid was, ‘I want to have a real job when I grow up.’ And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.”

— Will Ferrell

133. “I’ve always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that’s going on would be – shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.”

— Will Ferrell

134. “You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.”

— Will Ferrell

135. “I’m always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I’m actually going to have to execute it.”

— Will Ferrell

136. “I think people don’t understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.”

— Will Ferrell

137. “If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It’s obviously the best way to work.”

— Will Ferrell

138. “I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it’s essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it’s a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.”

— Will Ferrell

139. “Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can’t overdo it.”

— Will Ferrell