285 Quotes by Will Ferrell

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.

I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

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

I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because they love the script. A smaller budget sort of unifies everyone; it's a real team effort and that's amazing. But these opportunities just don't present themselves that often for me, so basically any chance I get to do something different I jump on it.

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.

I think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.