Kate McKinnon Quotes
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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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 found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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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'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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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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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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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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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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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 have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.
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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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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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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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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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I will not hear a word against him. I love my Bieber!
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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!