Chris Gethard Quotes

When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.

L.A.'s magic has let me see every level of the dream.

This industry has been really good to me. It's been a great life. I'm not through yet. I'm ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

Modelling doesn't hold you back in L.A. at all.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

I did this one scene in an episode of 'General Hospital', and that was my first job down in L.A. It was, like, my second audition, and I was like, 'Woo! This is easy! This is fun!' That was a really cool moment for me.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

I knew I wanted to act, and I was really driven, so I kept going for it. We moved to L.A. full-time when I was 8 or 9.

My dream was to win an Academy Award. But my other dream was to win the Super Bowl, and there's a chance that might not happen, either.

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.

Working with people like Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis is such a blessing because I've watched them a great deal. I grew up with 'Friends' and always aspired to work with someone from that cast. Jason is just such an amazing comedian.

I never had any idea of going into movies.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

I never dreamed of being in Hollywood.