Craig Ferguson Quotes

• I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word ‘existentialism.’

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• I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

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• If Scotland and America go to war, I’m afraid I’ve already sworn in.

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• I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I’m lost.

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• I don’t know now if I’m funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that’s funny.

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• I think I’m just someone that just tries to get by. I’m kind of – if it was during the Second World War, I’d be a black marketeer, I think.

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• I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

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• I’m careful with money.

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• I’m crazy. I know I’m crazy ’cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he’s very clever. He said, ‘You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.’ And I’m going to.

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• Historically, when Americans don’t know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: ‘What am I going to do now? I’ll go to Paris!’

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• I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that’s just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don’t believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.

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• I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living – and earning a living.

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• I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don’t know for sure.

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• I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.

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• Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

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• Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But it wasn’t Scotland’s fault. It was my circumstances. I was – I hate to say the word humbled – but that’s what it felt like. I was wrong about this place. This is a great place full of very fun people.

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• The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.

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• The truth is, you win the Lotto. That’s really how you have to approach it. You’re a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes.

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• The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

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• There’s just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what’s actually, physically, going on.

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Craig Ferguson (61)

Birth:	17th May, 1962
Nationality:	American, Scottish
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Film Director, Producer, Television Presenter, Writer

About

Craig Ferguson was born in Springburn, Glasgow. He is a Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, film director and producer. He was the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that aired on CBS from 2005 to 2014. He began hosting the syndicated Celebrity Name Game in September 2014. He moved to the United States where he found success in the role of Nigel Wick on The Drew Carey Show. He has also written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir.

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