559 Quotes by Jim Gaffigan

  • Author Jim Gaffigan
  • Quote

    When I’m in touch with the idea that there is a higher power and that there is, you know, other factors at work, it – it kind of quells my narcissism.

  • Share

  • Author Jim Gaffigan
  • Quote

    It’s a balancing act of you feel horrible that you’re away but there is something about the road that is rather liberating.

  • Share


  • Author Jim Gaffigan
  • Quote

    Babies, they learn how to walk and they are already trying to run away. You can’t reach the doorknob, you only know us, think it through.

  • Share

  • Author Jim Gaffigan
  • Quote

    There’s something that’s really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

  • Share

  • Author Jim Gaffigan
  • Quote

    It is amazing how much more amazing sleep is in the morning. You wake up and you’re like, “I stayed up to do what?! Watch Growing Pains? What was I thinking!?” But at night you’re like, “La La La La La, Hey! Growing Pains, awesome! And I’ve seen this episode. That Kirk Cameron’s always in trouble.”

  • Share

  • Author Jim Gaffigan
  • Quote

    My wife’s gotten really lazy, or as she calls it, ‘pregnant.’

  • Share

  • Author Jim Gaffigan
  • Quote

    I left the Midwest thinking I didn’t fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

  • Share

  • Author Jim Gaffigan
  • Quote

    For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn’t offer a level of creative fulfillment, it’s oddly unappealing.

  • Share