Chris Gethard Quotes

Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."

I think you can make good things happen if you look for them. Life is a very positive thing.

I'm just trying to do my part before I get hit by a bus.

Outside of performing, (a comedian) is someone who is analyzing life, thinking about it and trying to be observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel on the outside looking in.

The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

I just like testing myself. I just have that thing in me. Whatever it is that people tell me I can't do, I've gotta try it.

If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos.

We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

I would say that in the past year I have had to begrudgingly admit that I am finally a success of some level, sure.

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.

Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.

Even the prettiest performers and even the most handsome performers, when they get that opportunity, they still need to step up to the plate and deliver.

There's a lot of exhibitionists who want to tell their stories anonymously and there's a whole lot of voyeurs who want to feel like a fly on the wall and hear about people's lives.

We've switched to text messages, we do anything we can to avoid being on the phone.

I'm not good at math. Numbers are a terrifying thing to me. My father is a whiz with money and the stock market, and he tries to explain it to me, and I find it terrifying.

The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.

When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a crowd was laughing at it.

You need an immense amount of luck and perseverance to even be on the playing field for success on a grand scale.

People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just the fact of the matter.