Bill Hader Quotes
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I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.
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When you move to L.A. or New York, it's easy to get a little lost and forget your original goal.
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I'm always up before everybody else. I also crash at 3 o'clock when everybody's at their prime.
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Paul Rudd is a huge 'Hot Rod' fan.
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I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.
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If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.
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If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.
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Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.
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When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.
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I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.
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If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
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I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.
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I saw 'A Clockwork Orange' when I was 11. When you watch 'Clockwork Orange' at 11, it either totally scares you from watching movies, or you want to become a filmmaker. I was the latter.
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Every relationship is work.
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Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.
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When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.
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The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
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I'm very close to my sisters.
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I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'
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You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.
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'Superbad' was such a personal movie.
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I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.
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My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.