Bill Hader Quotes
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I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.
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I like doing a lot of research, and then you get there, you're in wardrobe, and then you're just reacting to what the other person is doing. The other actor is reacting to what you're doing, and it's this great back and forth. Because you've done all this research, you can use some of it or throw a lot of it out. You can get lost in it.
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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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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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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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Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there.
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My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.
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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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'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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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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Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they're going to change daily.
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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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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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I loved growing up in Tulsa.
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You know what, I remember being on my T-ball team and telling people about 'Platoon.'
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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 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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Seth Meyers and I wrote a 'Spider-Man' comic.
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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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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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I had a small part in 'Pineapple Express.'
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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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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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When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.