110+ Chris Hardwick Quotes On Education, Laughs And Jonah Ray

Chris Hardwick is an American stand-up comedian, actor, television host, writer, producer, and podcaster. He is the CEO of Nerdist Industries and the primary figure of the Nerdist Podcast Network. He is also well known for hosting the Comedy Central game show @midnight and AMC's Talking Dead, a live after-show for The Walking Dead. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Chris Hardwick on leadership, life, education.

Top 10 Chris Hardwick Quotes

1. We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.
2. Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.
3. Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.
4. No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.
5. Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.
6. I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy venom out of the nerd brain and use it for good if you want to.
7. I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.
8. Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.
9. I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.
10. There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

Chris Hardwick Short Quotes

• Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.
• The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
• Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.
• I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.
• I honestly think hipsters eat with their assholes because they consume everything wrong.
• Stand-up for me is usually a weekend thing. I go out of town and just do it.
• The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.
• Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.
• Worry is a misuse of your imagination.
• Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

Chris Hardwick Quotes About Life

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic. — Chris Hardwick

Playing Xbox for 23 hours straight is cool and all, but I'm going to teach you how to spend time on things in your life that will get you the following two things: paid and laid. — Chris Hardwick

I feel like being nerd is not about the superficial quality; it's about how nerds approach life. It's much more emotional and mental than it is you're some fat guy living in your mom's basement, which I think is just a hacky stereotype. — Chris Hardwick

I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms." — Chris Hardwick

If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices. — Chris Hardwick

If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for. — Chris Hardwick

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things. — Chris Hardwick

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying. — Chris Hardwick

There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around. — Chris Hardwick

I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life. — Chris Hardwick

Chris Hardwick Quotes About Love

I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear. — Chris Hardwick

I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into. — Chris Hardwick

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it. — Chris Hardwick

One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if stuff is working right away. — Chris Hardwick

There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it. — Chris Hardwick

I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express. — Chris Hardwick

I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid. I guess I never stayed in one place long enough to pick up the accent, but I definitely identify as a Southerner. — Chris Hardwick

Our mandate at Nerdist is that we only get involved with nice people around things that we love. We have the luxury of being in the demographic that we're programming for. — Chris Hardwick

The difference being that a nerd would wear a D&D shirt because he loves D&D while a hipster would wear a D&D shirt because it's ridiculous that he is wearing a D&D shirt. — Chris Hardwick

Chris Hardwick Quotes About Laughs

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why. — Chris Hardwick

There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way. — Chris Hardwick

Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic. — Chris Hardwick

Chris Hardwick Famous Quotes And Sayings

No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist. — Chris Hardwick

When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you. — Chris Hardwick

It's very easy to attack ourselves. Even comforting in its familiarity, but you must resist this urge at all costs. Dwelling on the past or your perceived flaws will do nothing but keep you under emotional house arrest and hamper your progress. Commit yourself to growth and reward yourself with kindness for choosing to do so! — Chris Hardwick

If you're able to build from your falls you'll be unstoppable and damn near fearless. You see, every time you fall down and get back up, you add another piece of body armor to yourself. You learn what not to do, how to do better, and how to create comfort through practice. — Chris Hardwick

I've seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show you how pervasive this stuff has become in our culture. It really is an ideology that you can subscribe to now. — Chris Hardwick

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning. — Chris Hardwick

Long ago you may have given up control of your brain and set it on autopilot either because it just felt like too much work. And it is work! But for me, this work was well worth it for the prospect of not waking up sad every day. — Chris Hardwick

The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture. — Chris Hardwick

A lot of people complain in the year 2003 that it's not the world of tomorrow as foreseen in the 1950s. 'Where are the flying cars?' people say. 'Where are the robots who bring us blue drinks and warn us of danger?' Alright. We don't have those things, specifically, folks, but you know what we do have? Laser vaginal rejuvenation surgery. — Chris Hardwick

Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world. — Chris Hardwick

You can't touch the strippers. Why are you paying to not touch someone? That is weird. How do you win in that situation? That is like walking into a deli, starving, and being like, 'Here's $300 - can I stare at the roast beef? Better yet, I'll sit down in this chair and you can mash it around my mouth and balls. — Chris Hardwick

I'm fascinated by people's process. Everyone's process is a little bit different, and just to see the different paths that people take to get where they are is really interesting to me. — Chris Hardwick

If you have the opportunity to try different things, you should try different things and step outside your comfort zone and see what works and what doesn't work. — Chris Hardwick

I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore. — Chris Hardwick

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl. — Chris Hardwick

Obviously, we went after Trump quite a bit, but I also feel like, we can't be on anyone's side, really. We need to be on comedy's side, so we need to be fairly going after everyone, because the entire political system is a circus. So it's been fun and interesting, and I hope people enjoy the evolution of the show. It'll continue to evolve because you can't do the same show forever. I feel like people would get bored with that. — Chris Hardwick

Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing. — Chris Hardwick

I don't know why people don't want to talk about their numbers. I guess in a sense, there's a bit of performer nudity, a bit of ego nudity when you expose your numbers, I guess because someone's are higher or someone's are lower. I've never really talked about the numbers with anyone, so maybe I'm not supposed to. — Chris Hardwick

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean. — Chris Hardwick

Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers. — Chris Hardwick

If you have laser-like brain it's not always focused on the most productive things. If you want to play Halo: Reach all day, that's fine, but if you want to accomplish some other things, here are some ways to do that using your innate nerd gifts. — Chris Hardwick

Be offended by everything or be offended by nothing. — Chris Hardwick

I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live. — Chris Hardwick

Alcohol is like pouring smiles on your brain. — Chris Hardwick

The nerds provide the toys that distract the morons. So the nerds are sort of the new drug-dealers. We're the drug dealers of the 21st century because we provide all the brain candy for the mouth-breathers, for lack of a better word. — Chris Hardwick

When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem. — Chris Hardwick

When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away. — Chris Hardwick

Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!" And I don't have 400-800 words to say about that, I just wanted to say that one thing. — Chris Hardwick

As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to. — Chris Hardwick

American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work. — Chris Hardwick

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts? — Chris Hardwick

The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto. — Chris Hardwick

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night. — Chris Hardwick

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying. — Chris Hardwick

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy. — Chris Hardwick

We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to social media, I don't necessarily want to be a political show. I want it to cover everything, everything in our culture through social media, politics, pop culture, entertainment, science, everything. — Chris Hardwick

I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart. — Chris Hardwick

It's so much easier to give advice than to take it. — Chris Hardwick

I'm just gonna do a podcast because it's mine, I can control it, I have complete responsibility over it, and no one can touch it. — Chris Hardwick

Rats are just Ziploc bags full of disease. — Chris Hardwick

I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world. — Chris Hardwick

Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess. — Chris Hardwick

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats? — Chris Hardwick

I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a nerd!" because I think they think of the classic Revenge Of The Nerds archetype. — Chris Hardwick

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers. — Chris Hardwick

We are in niche consumption mode, but 'niche' doesn't mean 'small' anymore. Niche can mean focused, and particularly with the Web, which is a global audience you can have something niche and still get 10 to 15 million views. — Chris Hardwick

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks. — Chris Hardwick

When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things. — Chris Hardwick

Stand up straight. If you stand up straight, you will instantly feel better about yourself, and you will project a better image to the world, one that says you don't feel like you have to be hunched over and closed off. — Chris Hardwick

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time. — Chris Hardwick

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information. — Chris Hardwick

Things that are viral are things that motivate people to say I have to share this with everyone I know, and that has been more politics lately, and that's completely understandable. — Chris Hardwick

I would say that nerds, as a rule, are much more sexually active than the average person. There's a lot of anxiety and stress in the nerd brain, so sex is good for that. — Chris Hardwick

My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things. — Chris Hardwick

My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek. — Chris Hardwick

I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time. — Chris Hardwick

Every time I finish a record, it's sort of feels like, "I can't believe that I'm hanging out and having a conversation, and people are gonna listen to this." It's an odd thing, but it's really cool. — Chris Hardwick

I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles. — Chris Hardwick

When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous. — Chris Hardwick

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it. — Chris Hardwick

I think some of what makes it a good podcast is that it's organic. It doesn't feel forced. If we can say anything about ours, it's that we're not faking it at all. We're genuinely interested in the people that we're talking to. — Chris Hardwick

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened. — Chris Hardwick

If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work... It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on. — Chris Hardwick

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building. — Chris Hardwick

I have opinions about the differences between Memphis barbecue and Texas barbecue. Put me in the kitchen and you'll see how Southern I can be. — Chris Hardwick

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school. — Chris Hardwick

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff. — Chris Hardwick

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die. — Chris Hardwick

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics. — Chris Hardwick

I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself. — Chris Hardwick

I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's too much sense memory of sitting in front of a chess board and getting super intense about it. It's ruined the game for me. — Chris Hardwick

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things. — Chris Hardwick

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes. — Chris Hardwick

I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears. — Chris Hardwick

Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture. — Chris Hardwick

Sober strip clubs are horrible. When you are sober you see the matrix code behind a strip club. You're paying girls to pretend to like you until you run out of money so they can walk away. — Chris Hardwick

I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not want to stab themselves in the face with a sharp object. — Chris Hardwick

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile. — Chris Hardwick

I just feel like, for me personally, there's just been so much election fatigue, and while I think it was very important during the election to always be on top of everything that was going on with the election via social media, I do feel like, all right, now we need a little bit of a detox. I think people need a little bit of a break from it. — Chris Hardwick

Life Lessons by Chris Hardwick

1. Chris Hardwick teaches us to never give up and to keep striving for success, no matter how many times we fail.
2. He also encourages us to embrace our passions and to use our talents to create something meaningful.
3. Finally, he reminds us to be true to ourselves and to always stay positive, no matter what life throws our way.