104 Quotes by Chris Gethard

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

Everyone likes to laugh. Everyone likes to dance along to some music.

When I was growing up, I think I was expected to be seen and not heard. You're this little, nerdy kid; no one wants to hear about how sad you are. Nobody wants to hear that you feel lonely.

I am a stereotypical northeasterner. I'm always in a rush. I've attracted stares from out-of-towners when I've shoved past someone blocking the subway door.

I think I'm a very notoriously positive comic.

I didn't like who I was. I spent a lot of my life regretting who I was, which is a sad thing to say.

I very classically would go into manic phases, which were as dangerous, if not more so, than the depressed phases, and I think I'd come up with the best ideas I ever had, and then the next day, I'd look at them and be like, 'This is nonsense,' because it was born out of a manic episode. What a waste of time.

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

I'm a pescatarian.