Bill Hader Quotes
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Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.
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I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.
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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 took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.
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I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.
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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'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
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I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true.
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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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To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
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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 first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.
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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 think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.
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I've seen people who come to work say, 'No, I'm doing it this way, and that's that.' I'm the opposite - I like being out of my element; it's where I like to live.
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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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To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.
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To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
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Seth Meyers and I wrote a 'Spider-Man' comic.
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The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'
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I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression.