Jimmy Fallon Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!"

Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce "gubernatorial."

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

Drew Barrymore is such a good actor.

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story.

I didn't want to just go and pose for pictures and get autographs all day. I just kinda came in, did my job and went home.

I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

I first met Queen when we worked together on Saturday Night Live and you just saw immediately that she got comedy. Immediately she got every joke.

I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

I like comedy in general. I always take something from it. I do love British comedy.

I love that city. When they want to party they can do it. I have affinity for Boston.

I loved Saturday Night Live, and I could relate to that. I remember missing a Saturday Night Live once-I was just wrecked.

I never sing in the shower. It's very dangerous.

I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed.

I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. I studied it. I wouldn't go out to parties.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

I'm going to North Pole to help out Santa this year.

I've got to do what I'm good at. Eventually I'll grow a beard and put out pet sounds.

If I ever get the opportunity to do anything with Queen Latifah, I've got to do it.

If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.

In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.

In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders.

It's all about the script. Reality is key to me and less cutesy.

John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever.

Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, "Thank you?"

Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

Talk shows always make me nervous.

The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

There definitely is some relationship between me and watching Saturday Night Live. I like to watch it alone, for one thing.

They got a great performance from me. I was happy.

We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph.

We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something.

We tried to stay as far away from the players as I could. I mean, I don't play for the Red Sox. I didn't want to disrupt any of their joy.

When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.

When you have the Farrelly brothers around you and Drew Barrymore, you kind of just trust and you get right into the scene.

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

Trivia

Jimmy is sometimes mistaken for film star Edward Furlong.

As of March 2007, Jimmy resides in New York.

Saturday Night Live released a DVD on January 25, 2005 documenting the "best" of his work on the show. The 85-minute DVD features pieces of his work on the show such as his role on Weekend Update, Jarret's Room and Jeopardy. Celebrity guests include Paris Hilton Robert De Niro and Justin Timberlake.

Jimmy was heckled when he opened up for the Jack Black band Tenacious D in New York City.

Jimmy was an extra on the Warner Bros 1997 movie Father's Day starring Billy Crystal & Robin Williams.

Jimmy and his sister Gloria would perform SNL skits at their parent's parties as they were growing up.

Jimmy wrote a children's book titled Snowball, based on one of his "Bathroom Wall" songs.

Jimmy appeared in the Tom Hank's HBO production Band Of Brothers in 2001, as 2nd Lt George Rice.

Jimmy went to Los Angeles in February of 1997, to work with the sketch/comedy group "The Groundlings". He moved back to New York in September of 1998 to audition for Lorne Michaels, head of Saturday Night Live.

Jimmy was chosen as one of People magazine's fifty most beautiful people in 2002.

Jimmy's first impersonation was at the age of two. His mother still has the video taped performance of him being James Cagney, saying the trademark "You dirty rat, you!"

He was nominated for a Grammy award for his comedy album "The Bathroom Wall," but lost to Robin Williams.

Fallon is the only SNL alum to have his own MTV "Making the Video" special for the single "Idiot Boyfriend," from his "The Bathroom Wall" album.

Fallon hosted the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards. He opened the show performing spoofs of various hit songs, including Eminem's "Without Me", Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" and Nelly's "Hot In Herre."

Jimmy is infamous on Saturday Night Live for looking straight into the camera during sketches and laughing when he makes a joke. For this he has been the butt of riducule.

For Jimmy's last sketch starring on SNL (May 15, 2004), they had to cut musical guest J-Kwon's performances down to one song.

His main characters on SNL were the obnoxious radio dj from Z105, Nick Burns your company's computer guy, Pat O'Brien from Access Hollywood, Sully the horny Boston Teen, Weekend Update Co-Anchor, Randy Goldman from 'Wake Up Wakefield', one of the guys from 7 Degrees Celcius,Jarret, the pot head from "Jarret's Room",and Patrick Fitzwilliam from Top O' the Morning.

Was chosen for People Magazine's 50 Most Eligible Bachelors.