Top 176 Quotes & Sayings by Will Ferrell - Page 2

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.

When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

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

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.'

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

It's tough for me to get rid of clothes. I grew up in a household with a limited budget and we really had to make our nice clothes last, and so now I'll get free pairs of shoes and this, that and the other and I'll be like, 'Oh great!'; even though it stresses me out that I don't have enough room to put them, I can't throw them away.

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day.

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

I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.

I live by 'Earnin' and burnin'.' Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That's the way I live my life.

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.

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.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

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?

It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are always gonna lead me to go for the amazing project where I'm being paid in Turkish cantaloupes.

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.

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.

I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work

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

I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!

Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know

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.

A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.

I just had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and they loved it. And then they went back to tell me that Electric Circus, if it came out at today, it would've had a different reception. One of them told me, "Hey, man. You need to bring it out again." And I said, "Hey, it's cool. It is what it is."

There’s a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.

Once a person has a child, the first question everyone asks is: "Are you going to have more children?" But it basically means: "Are you going to have more sex with your wife in the hopes of having children?

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

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.

I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!

In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.

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.

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert -- slim and none, and slim just left the building.

Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.

I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.

It's the fastest who get paid and it's the fastest who get laid.

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.

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.

I'm a cotton-headed ninny muggins.

Personal philosophy: Clothing optional

But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye.... Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That's about all you need.

If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.

It doesn't really exist, this Frat Pack. We run into each other on occasions and we all like each other's films, I guess, but there isn't some big funny restaurant or bar where we all hang out. At least, if there is, they haven't invited me.

We all know the moon isn't made out of green cheese...but if it was made out of barbeque spare ribs would you eat it?

If you ain't first, you're last!

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.

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.

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato

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.

I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!

Facebook: What's on your mind? ..Twitter: What's happening? Myspace: Where did everybody go?

Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.

Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.

I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song