Will Ferrell Quotes
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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.
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I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.
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'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd become such a popular film.
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New York is a fun town to go out in. During my twenties and into my thirties I had a good time partying, yes. But nothing where I woke up and I thought that I had a problem.
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It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have.
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It doesn't really exist, this Frat Pack. We run into each other on occasions and we all like each other's films, I guess, but there isn't some big funny restaurant or bar where we all hang out. At least, if there is, they haven't invited me.
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It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.
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I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.
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When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.
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There's nothing sexy about Orange County.
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I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'
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I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.
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Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.
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I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.
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Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.
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I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.
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I'm a Cancer; I'm music passionate. I like long walks on the beach.
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I'm able to come and do a new sound and grow even more and make greater songs because my song-making abilities have grown.
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You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.
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If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.
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I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.
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I never put too much pressure on myself when I'm the central thing, just because I don't think I could handle it mentally. I haven't really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.
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I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.
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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.