Quotes by Bill Hader - Page 3

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.
Bill Hader / Actor
Comic
Comic Book
Fulfilling
Swim
Work Chance Me
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For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'
Bill Hader / Actor
Anniversary
Godzilla
Venice
Ate
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I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.
Bill Hader / Actor
Actors
Want
Writing
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No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."
Bill Hader / Actor
Mistake
Stupid
Thinking
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If you watch 'SNL,' any time there's this thing with everyone singing, I'm, like, the one person who just has a straight line of dialogue because I can't sing to save my life.
Bill Hader / Actor
Dialogue
Snl
Life Time My Life
Straight Line
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I was a production assistant in the post department on 'The Surreal Life.' And it's been reported before that I was an assistant editor on 'The Surreal Life.' That is not true.
Bill Hader / Actor
Department
Surreal
Assistant
Editor
Production
Post
Reported
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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.
Bill Hader / Actor
Lips
Santa
Santa Claus
Alien
Concert
Danced
Dressed
Flaming
Hall
Onstage
Webster
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I'm the only one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that has Final Draft on my computer. Then you show up and go to any coffee shop in L.A., and there are a hundred people your age with Final Draft.
Bill Hader / Actor
Age
Coffee
Computer
Hundred
Oklahoma
Go
Then
Any
Show
Draft
Final
Final Draft
Shop
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Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.
Bill Hader / Actor
Good Way
Late
Reservations
Good Home Wife
Al
Al Pacino
Calls
James
Restaurant
Voices
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People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'
Bill Hader / Actor
Hey
Moon
Snl
Ask
Always Mind Me
Mind Me People
Wanna
Possible
Crossed
Saying
Seem
To The Moon
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I saw 'A Clockwork Orange' when I was 11. When you watch 'Clockwork Orange' at 11, it either totally scares you from watching movies, or you want to become a filmmaker. I was the latter.
Bill Hader / Actor
Clockwork
Filmmaker
Latter
Orange
Totally
Scares
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If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
Bill Hader / Actor
Casting
Financing
Office
Director
Producer
Table
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I don't think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, 'Oh, I don't even want to look at my face.'
Bill Hader / Actor
Movie
Direct
Woody
Face
Allen
Ben
Oh
Star
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Eastwood
Just Be
Woody Allen
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My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Bill Hader / Actor
Christmas
Borders
Fifteen
Groceries
Oklahoma
Twelve
Extra
Real Job
Sold
Trees
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My kids, they're always embarrassed when my voice shows up in something. I took them to Inside Out, and my voice comes in, and they were like, "Ugh, Dad, what are you doing? Get out of there."
Bill Hader / Actor
Kids
Dad
Voice
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To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.
Bill Hader / Actor
Balanced
Dramatic
Private Life
Life Work Home
Chilling
To Be Honest
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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.
Bill Hader / Actor
Desperation
Second City
Ended
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I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.
Bill Hader / Actor
Comedy
Hiring
Mistake
Self Conscious
Snl
Experience Thinking Me
Realize
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Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.
Bill Hader / Actor
Bounce
Pixies
Self Help
Tape
Wagner
Richard
Ipod
Linda
Treadmill
Thompson
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I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.
Bill Hader / Actor
Anderson
Paul
Thomas
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I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I'll just wade in it, and then I'll never come out.
Bill Hader / Actor
Wade
Twitter
Time Feel Doing
Certain Things
Facebook
Regiment
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When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.
Bill Hader / Actor
Airplane
Comedy
Fine
Apart
Works
Certain Things
Falls
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I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'
Bill Hader / Actor
Puberty
Bart
Simpson
Whoa
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I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one."
Bill Hader / Actor
Accord
Wells
Writing
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It doesn't occur to me that I don't drive a cool car until I hang out with Jon Hamm, who picks me up in what looks like a Transformer, and I think, 'Oh, that's what movie stars are driving. I guess I'm not a movie star.'
Bill Hader / Actor
Movie Star
Picks
Jon
Hang
Occur
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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.
Bill Hader / Actor
Work Thinking People
Click
Nice Guys
Park
South Park
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I move out here, and next thing I know I'm 25, and the only thing I've heard is, 'Can you get a coffee, can you hurry up with the thing, blah blah blah.' It was nice doing something and hearing someone go, 'Hey, you're good at this.'
Bill Hader / Actor
Coffee
Moving
Nice
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I'm never going to say, 'Well, I'm never going to do comedy again.' I love comedies, and it's what people know me for, so I love doing it... I don't really think about it in terms of 'Well, I should do this because it's comedy or drama.'
Bill Hader / Actor
Love Me People
Comedies
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It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
Bill Hader / Actor
Funny Always Me
Assume
Starred
Ten Minutes
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When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.
Bill Hader / Actor
Anxious
Snl
Solution
Weirdly
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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.
Bill Hader / Actor
Branches
Connecting
Vanity Fair
Couple Years
Grid
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My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.
Bill Hader / Actor
Beach
Deserted
Honeymoon
Lone
Middle
Shore
Sitting
Walking
Wife
Love Wife Me
Person
Along
Away
Cats
Nowhere
Love Me Wife
Laser
Right
Says
Turks
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I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about.
Bill Hader / Actor
Aspect
Coffee
Drinking
Hot
Invited
Lonely
Playboy
Sat
Snl
Talking
Talk
After
Corner
Island
Guys
Shoot
Mansion
Ratio
Rod
Season
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I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and strategize, I would always, always fall on my face. Things worked out when I tried to make it about what I was feeling at that moment and what I was into in that moment of my life.
Bill Hader / Actor
Fall
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Life Time Moment
Tried
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When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.
Bill Hader / Actor
Jon
Phil
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To be totally honest? I don't know if I'll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, 'Okay, I'm the impression guy.' So you imagine the cast at 'SNL' is an A-Team, and you've got the explosives guy, and I'm the impression guy.
Bill Hader / Actor
Explosives
Facility
Imagine
Impression
Okay
Snl
Me Keep People
Me People Doing
Totally
Cast
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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.
Bill Hader / Actor
Heard
Improvising
Actual
Camera
Definitely
Great Script
Group
Script
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I tried to get people at 'South Park' into 'Downton Abbey,' and it didn't work. I think they were like, 'Downton Abbey?' What?' And I kinda made a big plea in the writer's room, like, 'Guys, you should really watch it. It's good. It's addicting. My wife and I are obsessed with it.'
Bill Hader / Actor
Abbey
Obsessed
Work Good Wife
Writer
Downton Abbey
Park
Plea
South Park
Tried
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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.
Bill Hader / Actor
Ashamed
Crime
Ghastly
Gratification
Guilty Pleasure
Pleasure
Stranger
Term
Guess
Implies
Liking
Ton
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I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.
Bill Hader / Actor
Movie
Arizona
College
Community
Community College
Movie Theater
Rude
Theater
Tickets
Waiting
Had
Watch
Fired
Got
While
Worked
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I'm crazy lucky. I was trying to be a filmmaker. I was doing Second City classes as a way to be creative. I was a PA for a long time. I was working as an assistant editor on 'Iron Chef America' when I got 'SNL.' It was one of those situations where you're concentrating in one thing and the peripheral thing popped.
Bill Hader / Actor
Chef
Concentrating
Creative
Filmmaker
Iron
Long Time
Lucky
One Thing
Second City
Snl
Time Long City
Assistant
Classes
Editor
Pa
Peripheral
Second
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I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.
Bill Hader / Actor
Seasons
Snl
Stuck
Alien
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I just did this movie with Kristin Wiig called 'The Skeleton Twins.' That's a straight drama. We play estranged twins, and I end up moving in with her and her husband, played by Luke Wilson. But it's a drama, and the Duplass Brothers produced it and this great guy, Craig Johnson, directed it. And that was great, you know?
Bill Hader / Actor
Movie
Drama
Great Guy
Husband
Johnson
Luke
Twins
Wilson
Played
Brothers
Craig
Directed
Straight
Produced
Skeleton
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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.
Bill Hader / Actor
Reacting
Forth
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I remember getting in the elevator for my audition and there was a guy next to me who had a backpack full of props and wigs and things, and I went, 'Oh, my God, that guy is so prepared, I have nothing, I have no props.' And that was Andy Samberg. And Andy Samberg said he was looking at me going, 'Oh, that guy has no props. He doesn't need props.' And that was the first time we met, was in that elevator.
Bill Hader / Actor
Guy
Needs
Wigs
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