Craig Ferguson Quotes

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.
Craig Ferguson

Living, Beyond, Earning

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.
Craig Ferguson

Lost, Else, Show

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, Art, Yourself

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.
Craig Ferguson

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.
Craig Ferguson

Humor, Women, Realized

I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.
Craig Ferguson

Work, Said, Show

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

Sense, Comedy, Low

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, Someone, Black

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, Rock, Difficult

I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.
Craig Ferguson

Life, Live, Try

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.
Craig Ferguson

Children, Sometimes, Poor

I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.
Craig Ferguson

Night, Down, Before

I wanted to be a rock star.
Craig Ferguson

Rock, Wanted, Star

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.
Craig Ferguson

Honest, Terrible, Journalist

I'm careful with money.
Craig Ferguson

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.
Craig Ferguson

Laugh, Aware, Creepy

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
Craig Ferguson

Book, Reading, Except

I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.
Craig Ferguson

Life, Around, Whole

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.
Craig Ferguson

Job, Young, Kids

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, Father, Son

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

War, America, Afraid

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.
Craig Ferguson

Same, Moral, Gone

Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.
Craig Ferguson

God, Important, Television

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

Love, Car, Everything

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

Failure, Afraid, Fly

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Born: May 17, 1962

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