Words matter. These are the best Chris Farley Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I signed on as the clown, and, by golly, I’ll keep up my end of the bargain.
Everybody laughs when fatty falls down.
I have a tendency toward the pleasures of the flesh. It’s a battle for me, as far as weight and things like that. But I’m curbing them because I want to continue to do comedy, and the two don’t mix. So I try to fight those demons.
I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I’d work… on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts. So I escaped. Tom Arnold picked me up and we went to Le Dome and had tons of desserts.
Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I’m a human being like everyone else. I’m not exempt.
The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn’t a crazy glue sniffer.
I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, ‘Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.’ I thought, ‘Who cares? As long as they’re laughing.’
I want to live fast and die young.
I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
People… need a time to laugh. It’s up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, ‘I may be bad, honey, but I’m not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.’
In the land of the skunks, he who has half a nose is king.
I went and worked for my dad after school. I’d show up late and stuff like that.
I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.
Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it’s a neighborhood story.
I have a nice apartment now that’s all taken care of. I make my bed every day.
I was glad to be sober, but after ninety days, people weren’t patting me on the back anymore, sayin’, ‘Good job on the sobriety! Go get ’em!’
Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room. In particular, I’m working on trying not to be that guy in my private life.
You enter strong and you exit strong, and you’re going to be OK.