Bill Hader Quotes
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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 have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.
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There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.
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Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.
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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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A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
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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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A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.
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I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.
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I get migraines a lot. I get them when I'm stressed out. My brain freezes, and I just try to get through that.
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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'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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At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host.
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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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I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.
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I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.
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'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
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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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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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I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.
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I like when you are telling a story and fall into an impression.
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The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.
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I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.
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I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie.