Bill Hader Quotes
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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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Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.
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Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there.
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Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'
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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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My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.
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Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they're going to change daily.
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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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David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.
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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 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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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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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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My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
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You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'
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Seth Meyers and I wrote a 'Spider-Man' comic.
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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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In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.
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I had a small part in 'Pineapple Express.'
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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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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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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 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 you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.