Josh Gad Quotes

My Idol Growing Up Was Charlie Chaplin. I Was Obsessed With Him. I Mean, While Other Kids Were Watching Jim Carrey And The Likes In The '90s, I Was Watching Charlie Chaplin Films, Because I Was A Bit Of A Geek. I Became Obsessed With This Idea Of Physical Comedy.

How Do You Top 'mormon?' I Get Sent Scripts All The Time And I Don't Know What I Would Do Next. What Do You Do After That? So I Think If You Do See Me Onstage, You'll See Me In Something Dramatic, Maybe, Or You'll See Me Try My Hand At Something Else. Perhaps Fail, Terribly, But Try.

Josh Gad And I Have Been Friends Since The Time He Auditioned For Modern Family. I Directed The Pilot For That, And That's How We Met.

Josh [gad] Does Such An Amazing Job Playing A Lovable Idiot. Not Many People Can Do That, As Convincingly As He Can.

I Met Jon Lovett, Who Was Just Coming Off Of Three Years Of Being A Presidential Speech Writer And Had Just Arrived Here To Be A Comedy Writer In Hollywood. I Thought He Was Super Green, In Terms Of This World, But He Knows So Much About The World That We're Attempting To Write About.

I Think “the Book Of Mormon” Has Made That Difference In Its Field. It Changed The Game. It’s Something That 20 Years From Now People Will Still Be Talking About, Hopefully. That’s My Goal As An Artist, As A Creator, As A Work For Hire, Is To Choose Projects That Make People Think, Make People Talk, And Make People Interested In Having A Dialogue.

When You're Doing A Show Like 'the Book Of Mormon,' You're Completely Spent By The Time The Show Is Over.

The Actual Truth About Gad Is It's One Of The Original 13 Tribes Of Israel, So You Can Actually Trace My Lineage Back To, Like, Those Guys Who Had, Like, A Hand In The Bible And Have Since Become Very Famous From That. So I Come From Very Famous Lineage. Granted, They Didn't Have Cameras Back Then, So None Of Them Had Tv Shows.

I Was A Product Of A Divorced Family And I Used Humor As A Weapon To Combat Sadness. I Used Comedy To Make My Mother Laugh In Light Of The Darkness That She Faced, And To Me It Became A Very Powerful Tool At A Very Young Age, At Six. I Saw How Therapeutic It Could Be.

Coming Off Of 'book Of Mormon,' I Had A Lot Of Opportunities. I Didn't Want To Do Tv, Actually. I Really Wanted To Get Paid Nothing And Keep Doing Theater At All Costs.

It's Funny Because The Book Of Mormon Is The Book Of Mormon Now. When I Was Doing It At The Very Beginning, And I Was A Part Of It For Four Years And Always Believed In It, I Never Really Knew If It Was Going To Be More Than A Convention For South Park Fans.

Melissa Mccarthy Just Opened This New Movie, “identity Thief,” And Rex Reed, Who’s A Known Critic, Wrote A Scathing Commentary On Her Weight. I Think That Weight Designation Is One Of The Last Frontiers Of Bullying. I Don’t Know What The Right “ism” For It Is, But I Think That There’s A Level Of That That’s Happening That’s Certainly Not Okay.