Will Ferrell Quotes

• All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don’t have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.

  Will Ferrell

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in People, Think, Comedy

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dramatic, Comedy, Listening

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brain, Painful, Childhood

• 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

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Time

• James Caan told me at the end of filming ‘Elf’ that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny – and I never was.

  Will Ferrell

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Waiting, Film

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Remember, Saying

• Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.

  Will Ferrell

  Topics in Life, Work

  Tags in Night, People Change

Will Ferrell (7)

Birth:	16th July, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Writer

Related Authors

• Soulja Boy
• Boris Kodjoe
• Anthony Stewart Head
• Dwight Schultz
• Kenneth More
• Dean McDermott
• Joe Bob Briggs
• Christopher Haden Guest
• Michael Rady

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 2nd November

Births

• 1936 - Rose Bird
• 1914 - Ray Walston
• 1865 - Warren G. Harding
• 1942 - Shere Hite
• 1942 - Stefanie Powers

Deaths

• 2000 - Robert Edmond Cormier
• 1970 - Richard Cardinal Cushing
• 1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem
• 2004 - Theo van Gogh
• 1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini