Kate McKinnon Quotes
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Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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I just like playing unique characters that I love.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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When I heard that Paul Feig was directing an all-female 'Ghostbusters,' I was prepared to do anything to be a part of this, to be a part of what sounded like an incredible project.
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I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.