Will Ferrell Quotes

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

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• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Road
  • First
  • River

• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Energy
  • Dependent
  • Peninsula

• We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • End
  • Impossible
  • Season

• From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • City

• A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

  

  Walter Martin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Devil

• As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • You
  • iPhone

• A good fight scene is really a good love scene.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Good
  • Love
  • Fight

• I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Jokes
  • Affection
  • Racial

• I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Sports

• As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• There is something peculiarly dispriting about the emptiness that wells up when, in a strange city, one dials the same telephone numbers in vain.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • City
  • Something

• That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Game

• God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • God
  • Real

• One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Funny
  • Smart

• There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movie

• I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• For many years I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • Home
  • Husband
  • California

• 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
  • Soccer
  • Comedian
  • Grew

• Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

  

  Mitchell Hurwitz
  • Because
  • Would
  • Entertainment

• On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Financial
  • Policy
  • Century

• I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Entertainment
  • Grew