Quotes from Chris Hardwick

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and then other people start attacking them, and then they attack back.

I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.

Fleetwood Mac is just one of my all-time favorite bands.

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.

You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone.

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

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

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

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

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.

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

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

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

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

Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

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.