Bill Hader Quotes
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David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.
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Turns out typecasting is a real thing.
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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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Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there.
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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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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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If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it. It's much more fulfilling to me and I get to work with people who I'm a fan of.
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Let's face it: I look pretty out of shape.
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Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.
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I loved growing up in Tulsa.
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My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.
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'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.
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When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.
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I had a small part in 'Pineapple Express.'
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In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
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You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'
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Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.
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Seth Meyers and I wrote a 'Spider-Man' comic.
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When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.
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I work a lot, and it's kind of like, you meet people, and you just click. It's not like I'm looking at something and thinking: 'South Park' - how do I get on that?' I just became friends with those guys first. They're nice guys.
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I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing.
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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 was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.
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I've never met Charlie Sheen.