Bill Hader Quotes
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I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with 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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I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.
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My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.
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When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.
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Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
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I wrote a fan e-mail to Michael Chabon.
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Jason Sudeikis is always chewing gum.
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As far as post-'SNL' career, whatever kind of comes my way that looks interesting, I'll do it, you know?
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I like watching Kate McKinnon do something - there's a joy in seeing a new move from somebody and going, 'Oh, she can do that.'
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There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.
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A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
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I'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
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There's a movie called 'Pod People' that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.
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I grew up with my two sisters and my mom, so it's my lot in life to be surrounded by women.
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Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.
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I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.
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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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Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.
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I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.
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It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'
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I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.
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I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.
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My life is different since I moved back to L.A. from New York, mostly because I have a family and I don't go out.