Bill Hader Quotes
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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I wanted to be less well-known in comedy.
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We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
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The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.
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I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.
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Coaches were all saying that I was really talented and I had potential, but coming from Serbia, it wasn't easy. The '90s were the hardest years for our country - we went through two wars.
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I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.
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I have found that great people do have in common an immense belief in themselves and in their mission. They also have great determination as well as an ability to work hard. At the crucial moment of decision, they draw on their accumulated wisdom. Above all, they have integrity.
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Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
