Chris Gethard Quotes

I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.

I want to be all used up when I die.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable. Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.

You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'

I want to be the best daughter, sister, friend and wife I can possibly be - because when I die, I am not going to be buried with my Oscar.

I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.

There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we're going to get.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.

I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

Death is promised. So what do you do with your life? How do you make the most of it? How do you make your voice the loudest?

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.