Chris Gethard Quotes

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

I have to tell you, I'm a great teacher. Ask anybody who worked for me, except some secretaries who weren't very good.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers.

I've always been very honest about what's good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good.

If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don't need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad - because I know it.

I never said I am the best.

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

I really don't think of myself as the best player on the team.

I think I'm the best wide receiver in the NFL.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.

I'm not an improv guy. I'm not a nerd, I play one on television.

Not saying I rate myself lots now, but I rate myself more because I've been exercising. I'd say a six now. Just above average. There are a lot of good-looking people out there, you see, so more than six is getting a bit cocky.

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.

I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.