Craig Ferguson Quotes

• 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.

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in People, Myself, Realize

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Really, Only

• Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

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  Tags in Worked, Physics, Really

• Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it’s faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up – that stuff is very similar.

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in Tomorrow, Better, Different

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

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  Tags in Young, Kids, Right

• I don’t get emails from my corporate overlords.

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  Tags in Corporate, Get

• 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

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Really, Looking

• I don’t see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

  Craig Ferguson

  Topics in Job

  Tags in People, Something, Looking

• 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

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  Tags in Moral, Politicians, Same

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

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in School, Stage, Pain

• Don’t ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don’t want to be one.

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in Night, Talk

• I remember talking to someone early on after I was sober about how I suddenly felt awkward at parties. They said, ‘Well, you’re supposed to. Everyone feels awkward at parties.’ It’s an appropriate feeling to feel.

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in Someone, Remember, Feeling

• I wanted to be a rock star.

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  Tags in Wanted, Rock

• I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I’m a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don’t care for it.

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in Care, Night, Commission

• I’m not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in Laugh, Having

• 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

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Happy, Lawyer

• 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.’

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in Critical, Anything, Culture

• I aim to please. I’m nothing if not a vaudevillian.

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in Nothing, Please

• It’s very interesting to know what people are doing while you’re working on late-night television.

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in People, Interesting, Television

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

  Craig Ferguson

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  Tags in Comedy, Think

Craig Ferguson (61)

Birth:	17th May, 1962
Nationality:	American, Scottish
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Film Director, Producer, Television Presenter, Writer

About

Craig Ferguson was born in Springburn, Glasgow. He is a Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, film director and producer. He was the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that aired on CBS from 2005 to 2014. He began hosting the syndicated Celebrity Name Game in September 2014. He moved to the United States where he found success in the role of Nigel Wick on The Drew Carey Show. He has also written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir.

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