Craig Ferguson Quotes

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

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Hope, Something

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Already, Afraid

• I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Intellectual, Probably

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Teacher, English

• I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They’re always saying: ‘Oh, no. It will never work. You’ll never amount to anything. You’ve got to know your place in the world.’

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Critical, Anything, Culture

• I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comedy, Think

• It’s very interesting to know what people are doing while you’re working on late-night television.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Interesting, Television

• I aim to please. I’m nothing if not a vaudevillian.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Please

• Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in People, Information, Interesting

• It’s the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you’ve got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Happy, Lawyer

• I’m not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh, Having

• I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, ‘Well, you’re supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.’ It’s an appropriate feeling to feel.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Remember, Feeling

• I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I’m a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don’t care for it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care, Night, Commission

• Don’t ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don’t want to be one.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Night, Talk

• I wanted to be a rock star.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Rock

• If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I’m out. I’m gone.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moral, Politicians, Same

• All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Stage, Pain

• I don’t see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Job

  Tags in People, Something, Looking

• I’ve started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Really, Looking

• I’ve got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Young, Kids, Right

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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