Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
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"I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"After all this time I found that the novel is in fact punk rock."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"Jimmy put in a word and told them that if I made it, I wouldn't be able to live with myself without paying them back. That I'd sooner die than owe anyone money for helping me. Apparently Jimmy knew more about me at that point than I knew about myself."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony-the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?"
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"I didn't flee a dictator or swim an ocean to be an American like some do. I just thought long and hard about it."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover."
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
"It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?"
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot