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 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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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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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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A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.
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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 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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I met Robin Williams a few times, and he was a beautiful guy.
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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'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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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 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 at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.
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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 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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'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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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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People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'