Snl Quotes - Page 2

• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  Rachel Dratch

  Dream, Childhood, Wanted

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• It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Sorority, Actresses, Closest

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  Hannibal Buress

  Jobs, Real, Half

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.

  Lena Dunham

  Sleep, Night, Hands

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.26, Random House

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• SNL was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I dont have any regrets.

  Michaela Watkins

  Dream, Regret, Years

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• I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at SNL, I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you’re going to end up at.

  J. B. Smoove

  People, Comedian, Actors

  "J.B. Smoove Talks New Series ‘Bent,’ Plan To Become A Comedy Mogul". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I'm more of a comedian. I wouldn't mind being on SNL (Saturday Night Live). I think that would be cool.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Night, Thinking, Comedian

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• If I had signed my fourth season of SNL, I wouldn't have ever had the opportunity to do Curb Your Enthusiasm. If my buddy OG Pearson wouldn't have passed away, I wouldn't have been in L.A. for his memorial, and I would've never auditioned for Curb.

  J. B. Smoove

  Opportunity, Memorial, Enthusiasm

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• In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

  Illeana Douglas

  School, Goal, Acting

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• A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Zero, Motivation, Laughing

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• For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

  Tina Fey

  Inspirational, Laughing, Bills

  "Funny girl". www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Cities, Fey, Generations

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• When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

  Josh Gad

  Dream, College, Years

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• Even when I was at 'SNL,' I didn't do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them - I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show - but I didn't have any experience.

  Tina Fey

  Kind, Shows, Wanted

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2009.

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• You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Stuff, Persons

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February 2009.

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• I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

  Kathy Griffin

  Color, Female, Want

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• My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.

  Teri Hatcher

  Stars, Goal, Advice

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• From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

  Penn Jillette

  New York, Couple, Squares

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.

  Mindy Kaling

  Falling In Love, New York, Long

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'

  Kevin Nealon

  Weed, Jobs, People

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• At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel really stagnant, waiting for a part. I was also taking classes at UCB and Groundlings, and at the higher levels, they focus on writing. It was such a relief to be able to write. During those programs, I wrote a one-woman show called Me, Myself, and Iran, and it ended up getting to Tina Fey. She recommended me to audition for SNL, so I got my first of two auditions through her.

  Nasim Pedrad

  Writing, Iran, Land

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• If I watch an episode of SNL, and there's one thing that I liked, then that's a good episode.

  Andy Samberg

  Watches, Episodes, One Thing

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 1, 2007.

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• Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

  Andy Samberg

  Roof, Viewers

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 1, 2007.

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• I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Thinking, Connections, Actresses

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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