Will Ferrell

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

'Elf' has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, 'This could be the last movie I ever make,' and I could never have predicted that it'd...

I hate when someone drives my car and resets all the radio presets. I don't understand it. If I was ever driving someone's car, I would never touch the things that were set.

When you hear that you're going to be working with a first-time director, sometimes that can be a concern to people.

You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if...

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.