Quotes By Craig Ferguson

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.'

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

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.

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

I'm careful with money.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

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

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.

I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now.

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.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.