1. “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
2. “I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.” – Will Ferrell
3. “I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato.” – Will Ferrell
4. “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
5. “I don’t even consider myself an impressionist, really.” – Will Ferrell
6. “Enjoy the little fun things – like taking your kids to school – before they’re all grown up.” – Will Ferrell
7. “I guess destiny is not the path given to us but the path we choose for ourselves.” – Will Ferrell
8. “I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.” – Will Ferrell
9. “I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.” – Will Ferrell
10. “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
11. “Personal philosophy: Clothing optional.” – Will Ferrell
12. “There’s always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.” – Will Ferrell
13. “I’m a Cancer; I’m music passionate. I like long walks on the beach.” – Will Ferrell
14. “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
15. “Why not work with your friends? It’s working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.” – Will Ferrell
16. “There’s a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.” – Will Ferrell
17. “What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?” – Will Ferrell
18. “I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard.” – Will Ferrell
19. “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
20. “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
21. “Everyone I know who skis is dead.” – Will Ferrell
22. “I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!” – Will Ferrell
23. “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!” – Will Ferrell
24. “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
25. “You know you can be having a bad day and someone will walk by and say: ‘Hey, I love you, Will.’ That really cheers you up. That’s a really lovely thing.” – Will Ferrell
26. “I don’t really think in absolutes.” – Will Ferrell
27. “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
28. “No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.” – Will Ferrell
29. “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
30. “I just kind of have a comedic looking body, I guess. If anything I really have to exercise just to not look too fudgy, otherwise I would just keep going and going.” – Will Ferrell
31. “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
32. “I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!” – Will Ferrell
33. “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
34. “Immature is aword boring people use to describe fun people.” – Will Ferrell
35. “Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.” – Will Ferrell
36. “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
37. “If you ain’t first, you’re last!” – Will Ferrell
38. “I would love to play Simon Cowell in a movie – heck, I would love it. It would be my dream role.” – Will Ferrell
39. “Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.” – Will Ferrell
40. “If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?” – Will Ferrell
41. “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
42. “Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.” – Will Ferrell
43. “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
44. “You definitely feel a little exposed, because some of your friends call you like, “Man, I need that much.”” – Will Ferrell
45. “America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed.” – Will Ferrell
46. “You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.” – Will Ferrell
47. “Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.” – Will Ferrell
48. “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
49. “In every circle of friends there’s always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don’t have one? Then it’s probably you.” – Will Ferrell
50. “What about Santa’s cookies? I suppose ‘parents’ eat those, too?” – Will Ferrell
51. “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
52. “I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.” – Will Ferrell
53. “Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.” – Will Ferrell
54. “My wife and I always enjoy going for a jog.” – Will Ferrell
55. “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
56. “I’m in a glass case of emotion.” – Will Ferrell
57. “When you’re doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character – I hope I don’t reveal too much of myself here – but, uh, no, I’m not doing anything.” – Will Ferrell
58. “I put my pants on just like the rest of you – one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.” – Will Ferrell
59. “You did it! Congratulations! World’s best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It’s great to be here.” – Will Ferrell
60. “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
61. “Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.” – Will Ferrell
62. “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
63. “I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.” – Will Ferrell
64. “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
65. “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
66. “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” – Will Ferrell
67. “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
68. “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
69. “I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.” – Will Ferrell
70. “Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life.” – Will Ferrell
71. “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
72. “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
73. “Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.” – Will Ferrell
74. “Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don’t know.” – Will Ferrell
75. “I’m a really good swimmer.” – Will Ferrell
76. “There are a lot of really funny guys who are very natural in what they do: Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen.” – Will Ferrell
77. “You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.” – Will Ferrell
78. “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
79. “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
80. “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
81. “A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.” – Will Ferrell
82. “I often don’t think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.” – Will Ferrell
83. “No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it’s never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.” – Will Ferrell
84. “I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.” – Will Ferrell
85. “I don’t even consider myself an impressionist, really.” – Will Ferrell