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Craig Ferguson

14 quotes

Sometimes a single quote is enough to make a name memorable. Craig Ferguson has given us several. The range of their thinking — from War to Hope — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 15 quotes from Craig Ferguson, each offering a different angle on War, Hope, Funny, Wedding, and Teacher. Among their most shared lines: "The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman."

“It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.”

— Craig Ferguson

Beauty

All Quotes by Craig Ferguson

“It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.”

— Craig Ferguson

Car

“I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.”

— Craig Ferguson

Age

“The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.”

— Craig Ferguson

Wedding

“It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.”

— Craig Ferguson

Beauty

“Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.”

— Craig Ferguson

Fear

“I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.”

— Craig Ferguson

Home

“It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.”

— Craig Ferguson

Failure

“If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.”

— Craig Ferguson

War

“I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.”

— Craig Ferguson

Funny

“I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.”

— Craig Ferguson

Hope

“I realized women and humor were linked very closely.”

— Craig Ferguson

Humor

“I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'”

— Craig Ferguson

Teacher

“I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.”

— Craig Ferguson

War

“I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.”

— Craig Ferguson

Funny