Joshua Ferris Quotes

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.

I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

I don't want to think my life as a career.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.

Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

Sometimes, you just need to get out of the game and should do things which you want to do in life and like.

I don't think my life has been badly lived - but I don't think of it that way. And nor should I.

The only big life challenge I think I'm worried about is a mid-life crisis because I've done so little. I think if people who've lived normal lives have mid-life crises and buy motorbikes, what is a man who's done nothing?

I think until you reach your mid-30s, there's either a real acceptance of where you are or a resignation of where you are.

I always have moments on set where I think, 'Oh my God, this is my life right now.' And it could've been so different.

Even though we're really, really happy with what we do, sometimes I think - as an adult, you think, 'Should I be more responsible with my life choices?'

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

What's the quality of my life? Often times, when you're in there, you're not thinking about that. You're thinking, 'I want this match at WrestleMania to be the most incredible thing anyone has ever seen.'

I'm very happy with where I arrived, both personally and professionally. I can say more so personally, because my career will have to end eventually. I do not know how long it will be, but eventually it will end, and the personal will continue.

I had always wanted to go to college but found my life taking a different path.

Everyone who does comedy at my level thinks the same thing: 'What am I doing with my life?'

My career, it's turned out to be something more than I ever thought and more than I ever dreamed. It's been an unbelievable ride. It's amazing.

I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.