Top 30 Will Forte Quotes

I love mustaches with all my heart. There’s just something about sketch comedy and mustaches.

Definitely, I did not, after ‘SNL,’ say, ‘OK, first I’ll go be in Alexander Payne’s movie.’ I thought I might go back to writing, to be honest.

The Emmys are in good hands with Andy Samberg. Disgusting, dirty hands.

When you make something that you’re really proud of, and it doesn’t do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn’t do well.

Obviously, if you get a chance to be in Alexander Payne’s movie, you’re going to go for it, or you’d be a crazy person.

Anybody can have any opinion they want to, as long as it’s an informed opinion.

I’ve always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.

I feel like I’ve always been a hard worker – working too much on things that I don’t need to work on. Nothing’s ever going to be perfect, but I still feel like there’s this attainable perfection, which doesn’t exist.

I’m an optimist, and I’ll stay in situations for much longer than I should, just thinking that they’ll work themselves out.

I’ve always loved burritos, and I’ve always loved breakfast, and when I learned that some smart person had combined the two, it was a real sun-peeking-through-the-clouds moment.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

The older I get, the more grays are popping out. They’re definitely all over my beard.

I don’t know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.

I don’t do a lot of strategizing, career-wise. I was approached by Chris and Phil, the guys who did ‘The Lego Movie.’ They gave me my first job on ‘Clone High.’ We’ve been friends forever, and they asked me if I wanted to write something with them.

It takes a certain type of person to register your ‘Donkey Kong’ score. So I’m just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

I never knew how much you had to do to promote a movie, and I can’t imagine what it would be like if you didn’t like the movie you were promoting.

I’m not used to people watching the stuff that I do.

Right before ‘Nebraska,’ I went to Ireland to do this little movie called ‘Run & Jump.’ It was so far away from home, I felt a real safety to explore a different kind of role. I loved how it turned out.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.

I’m not very good at impersonations.

‘Wayne’s World’ is one of the best movies of all time.

I cannot pull off a mustache. It’s like threading a needle, because most of the time, I’ll look like a complete idiot.

I can let people take advantage of me at times.

I think there are people that don’t think ‘SNL’ should make movies because sketches don’t translate. Sometimes they don’t, but sometimes they do.

Certainly there were so many different people I had as heroes growing up. Steve Martin is always my number one. David Letterman’s show, that was important. And ‘Saturday Night Live,’ obviously.

I don’t really have much of a skin care routine. I take a shower every day, but I don’t wash my face before I go to bed or anything. I’ll try every once in a while to put some moisturizer on my face. In fact, I would probably have better skin if I was religious about it, but I’m not.

I don’t like the pressure to try to tell the best jokes. I’m not good at jokes.

You can do anything to my food and I’ll still eat it.

It’s good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of ‘What would we want to see?’

There are all kinds of people who I watch and marvel at. Just so many. I’ll watch something and go, ‘Could I ever have done that?’