Will Ferrell Quotes

If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

Will Ferrell

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• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Looking

• I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Success
  • Meaning

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Dance
  • Knowing
  • Taught

• When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Time
  • New
  • Chapter

• That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • People
  • Time
  • Amazing

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

  

  Dana Perino
  • History
  • Age
  • Thought

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Lies

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Every crowd has a silver lining.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Crowd
  • Silver
  • Lining

• I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Music
  • Live

• How could millennia-old superbeings be so boring?

  

  Kage Baker

• The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception.

  

  John Sununu
  • Believe
  • House
  • Deception

• As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.

  

  T. H. Watkins
  • World
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I just sing. But I have a fun hobby: I love to do archery. I'm pretty good on target. I'm not sure about the distances - maybe only 7 or 10 feet, so far, but I've scored the bull's eye several times, but usually always hit the target.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Target

• My little 8-year-old brother drew a picture of three cats and he wrote 'Cat Empire' under them. When we were looking for a name, I saw that drawing and it stuck with us.

  

  Felix Riebl The Cat Empire
  • Picture
  • Brother
  • Cat Empire

• If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Trying
  • Environment
  • Failing