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" I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think. "
Craig Ferguson
Own
Think
I Am
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" I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now. "
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" I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living. "
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" 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. "
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" All they teach you in drama school is how to do stage fights and be a pain in rehearsals. "
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" When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we'd get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him. "
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" 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. "
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" Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one. "
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" 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.' "
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High School
Teacher
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" They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best. "
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" The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman. "
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" I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right. "
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Right
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" The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful. "
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Me
Awful
" It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television. "
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People
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You
" A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre. "
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Friend
Started
Mine
" For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable. "
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Politicians
Joy
Powerful
" 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. "
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Kind
Black
Think
" 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. "
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Interesting
People
Fear
" I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny. "
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Talking
Now
Know
" 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. "
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Money
Know
You
" 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. "
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Looking
Stone
Door
" It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure. "
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Afraid
Failure
Fly
" I'm careful with money. "
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Careful
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" Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But it wasn't Scotland's fault. It was my circumstances. I was - I hate to say the word humbled - but that's what it felt like. I was wrong about this place. This is a great place full of very fun people. "
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Thought
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" The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes. "
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Truth Is
You
Winner
" 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. "
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" Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!' "
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Now
" I try and live my life in bite-size chunks. "
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My Life
" 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. "
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Face
Beauty
Daily
" There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on. "
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Pure
Life
Kind