Will Ferguson Quotes

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.

WikiLeaks combines several of my prior interests in technology, policy questions, and journalism.

Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.

Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Facebook is exactly like that except you're not really famous and your 15 minutes goes on forever.

Gas prices - it is $6 a gallon here. People in L.A. are furious. You can't tell, of course, because of the Botox.

In the past I've been hard on the vegans. I've called them Prius-driving fascists, but now I am one of them. I have been turned to the dark side.

A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms.

Sober alkies are often asked: "When did you hit rock bottom?" but a more informed question might be: "How many times did you hit rock bottom?

Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.

You know when you're a kid and you think, 'Oh no, I've got double math, this is never gonna end,' but then it ends, and it's like it never happened? That's like life.

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote: I give you the world. Have fun blowing it up.

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

Don't hit women. Never, ever, ever.

I'm a vulgar lounge entertainer, I don't need to wear a tie.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

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

Osama bin Laden's death has been in the news all day. Leftish stations are going, 'President Obama saves the world.' Stations on the right are going, 'Obama kills fellow Muslim.'

Tomorrow is your future's yesterday.

You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.

Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts.

Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.

Whoever I had become had to die.

You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species.

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.

All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals.

In Washington, the U.S. House passed a bill unanimously. Every single member of both parties voted for it. What was it? To deny Social Security benefits to Nazis. So from now on, no SS for the SS.

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.

Personally, I hope he doesn't get out of the campaign. I need Rick Perry. I don't want to spend the next year trying to do jokes about Mitt Romney.

Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

Friday's turmoil in global markets looks set to continue to exert a dominant force on the foreign exchange markets. The usual trend when U.S. stocks fall is that the U.S. dollar suffers.

If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

Democrats in state legislatures are at their lowest level since the 1920s. President Obama has a can't-miss strategy to save the party in 2016. He's leaving.

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!

It's fantastic that Congress has an increasing number of women. Experts call an increasingly female presence in a previously male space 'the Bruce Jenner effect.'

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

Last night on the show I had Olympics fever. Unfortunately, it's getting worse. That's not good. I have to call my doctor if my torch burns for more than four hours.

It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined. You can avoid that disappointment by never, ever reading books.