Bill Hader Quotes
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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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When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.
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Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.
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I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about.
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'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.
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I never resented anybody for being successful.
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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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It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
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I love comedy, but it's dramas that stick with me.
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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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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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I learned a lot just watching people perform.
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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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My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.
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Turns out typecasting is a real thing.
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My wife and I got to go onstage at a Flaming Lips concert at Webster Hall once. We dressed up like Scientology aliens and danced around. We had a shootout onstage with Santa Claus.
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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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Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.
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George Saunders is a complete genius.
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I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money.
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I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don't have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.
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When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.
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Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.
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David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.