63 Quotes by Josh Gad

When you have a kid, it changes your life. It reminds you, this is my life now: I’m responsible for this tiny person. It’s so surreal.

I don’t know if I’d call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we’re attempting to write about.

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on ‘SNL,’ and that was all I could imagine.

I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that’s more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They’re very powerful figures in my life.

It’s weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

I was being flirted with for ‘Modern Family,’ which my wife still hasn’t let me live down, but it’s one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn’t be any more perfect. It wouldn’t have been right for me, and I wouldn’t have been right for it.

We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it’s to invent or discover new things, sometimes it’s to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it’s to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.

I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I’m fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it’s attached itself to.