65 Will Ferrell Quotes On Success In Life
John William Ferrell is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He first established himself in the mid-1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in comedy films such as Elf, Kicking & Screaming, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Semi-Pro, and Land of the Lost. These Will Ferrell quotes will motivate you.
Best Will Ferrell Quotes
- “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “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
- “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?” ~ Will Ferrell
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“Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life” ~ Will Ferrell
- “No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.” ~ Will Ferrell, Will Ferrell quotes about life
- “If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?” ~ Will Ferrell
- “Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “A fashion plate, a rock star in his own mind, Megamind is more showman than deadly menace.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “There’s a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.” ~ Will Ferrell, Will Ferrell quotes on mistakes
- “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
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“Aren’t we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?” ~ Will Ferrell
- “I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I’m still at work” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato” ~ Will Ferrell
- “I guess destiny isn’t the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It’s my obligation to share it with the world.” ~ Will Ferrell
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“It’s the fastest who get paid and it’s the fastest who get laid.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “I look good. I mean, really good. Hey everyone! Come and see how good I look!” ~ Will Ferrell
- “I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song” ~ Will Ferrell
- “I often don’t think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “Personal philosophy: Clothing optional” ~ Will Ferrell
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“Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “Why not work with your friends? It’s working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.” ~ Will Ferrell, Will Ferrell quotes on friends
- “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.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.” ~ Will Ferrell
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“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
- “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.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?” ~ Will Ferrell
- “I don’t know about living on an automatic pilot, but I’ve had times where I’ve decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it’s what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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.”” ~ Will Ferrell
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“Facebook: What’s on your mind? ..Twitter: What’s happening? Myspace: Where did everybody go?” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “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.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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?” ~ Will Ferrell, Will Ferrell quotes on children
- “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
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“I’m a cotton-headed ninny muggins.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “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
- “If you ain’t first, you’re last!” ~ Will Ferrell
- “I’ve never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “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
- “I’m just a big, hairy, American winning machine!” ~ Will Ferrell
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“I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “You did it! Congratulations! World’s best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It’s great to be here.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “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
- “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.” ~ Will Ferrell
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“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!” ~ Will Ferrell
- “I never put too much pressure on myself when I’m the central thing, just because I don’t think I could handle it mentally. I haven’t really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “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
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“Enjoy the little fun things – like taking your kids to school – before they’re all grown up.” ~ Will Ferrell
- “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
- “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
- “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
