Chris Gethard > Quotes

“...beautiful things often happen, and that the most beautiful things are often simple.”
― Chris Gethard

“As luck would have it, I happened to have a top hat that I previously wore to my junior prom.”
― Chris Gethard, A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure

“It makes sense that your most unique ideas feel terrifying, because they are creatively risky and also expose the inner workings of your brain.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“If I had to give you a proper description, I would say a camel cricket is basically a cross between a grasshopper and a dragon and that its natural habitat is the nightmares of men.”
― Chris Gethard

“Friends and compatriots remind you that when your world burns you should stand right next to the flame.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“Pretending everything was okay all the time, when life is so odd and often so harsh, seemed more damaging than not.”
― Chris Gethard, A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure

“I learned one of the great illuminating lessons of my life at that job though: love can make something feel easy, even when it’s not.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“Failure is your friend. Winning is your goal, or losing is your goal. You never want to land in that sad middle ground where you haven’t failed. Where you did nothing to embarrass yourself, but didn’t do anything to distinguish yourself either. That’s the difference between winning and playing not to lose.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well: A Hilarious Manifesto on Embracing Failure, Finding Purpose, and Living Life on Your Own Terms

“Comedy used to demoralize me on a near daily basis. Now I only bomb and question everything once or twice a month.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“we all got back in the car and drove home, safe and sound, able to chase our dreams for another day on our sad but beautiful terms.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“Spend enough time adrift and feeling alone in your pursuits and you’ll eventually cobble together a support system of like-minded people.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“Am I a melodramatic person? Sometimes. Am I spiritual? Vaguely, and inconsistently.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“I'm unable to tell you what it feels like to be "a little" mad. My emotions work as if controlled by a light switch. I'm either fine or I'm out of control. I once spilled a container of thumbtacks and got as angry at myself as I did when I screwed up my relationship with my high school sweetheart. If I'm under the impression that there are Golden Grahams in my cupboard, then realize that there in fact are none, there's a high probability I'll be as sad as I was at my grandfather's funeral.

In other words, my reactions aren't in proportion to the things I'm reacting to. It's something I've been working on with a very lovely shrink for the past few years.

But against the 4Skins one day, all that hard word went out the window.”
― Chris Gethard, A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure

“If you’re not feeling scared, you’re not growing. If there’s no room to grow, then there’s no room to breathe. Things that can’t breathe die, even ambitions.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well: A Hilarious Manifesto on Embracing Failure, Finding Purpose, and Living Life on Your Own Terms

“I don’t think you can change the world. But I do think you can change your world, in subtle ways, small ways, ways that remain internal and known only to you.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“My therapist and I even have a joke about it: shit is truly fucked up when I start threatening to take a road trip.”
― Chris Gethard

“It wasn’t easy, but after a lifetime of anger, and a college career that only saw me grow more and more out of control, for the first time I’d decided to get help and try to heal. I gave up drinking. I made it a point to actively search for the positive side of everything. And perhaps as a result, after years of self-doubt and self-destructive behavior, I was finally dropping all of my internal defenses and starting to look at all the possibilities life offered.”
― Chris Gethard, A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure

“Because podcasting allows for free-form conversations, for rambling. Unlike television, or the written word, it doesn’t need to be over-edited or controlled. People who like podcasts tend to like things that are raw, unedited, and even meandering more than they like tightly scripted projects. This idea, by its definition, can’t be predicted”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“Ray Romano gets a standing ovation. That’s great for him. That’s not what I want, though. I want to tell you a joke and have one audience member quietly reassure me that I am funny.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“My success only happened when I ignored advice I knew was good and made choices I was certain were ill-advised.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“The melodrama of what you’re doing cannot outweigh the necessity of your hard work.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well

“I’ve never been the funniest comedian. Not even close. But no one can deny I’ve been a comedian.”
― Chris Gethard, Lose Well