Quotes By Jimmy Fallon

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

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.

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

I like being absurd. Being silly.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.

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

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'

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

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

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

I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.

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.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say.

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

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

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

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

I like doing energetic things.

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 don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

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.

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.

I like to see people laugh who are normally serious.

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

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.

Everyone looks so much better when they smile.

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