Bill Hader Quotes
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For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'
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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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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 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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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 hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.
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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 wrote a fan e-mail to Michael Chabon.
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My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'
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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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One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.
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Jason Sudeikis is always chewing gum.
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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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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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Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.
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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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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.
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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'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
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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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I don't think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, 'Oh, I don't even want to look at my face.'
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You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.
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Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.
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There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.