Saturday Night Quotes - Page 5

I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.
Jerry Trainor /
High School
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Comedies
Definitely
Musicals
Plays
Sketches
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I didn't do so well at 'Saturday Night Live.' It was a very hard experience for me, for a lot of reasons that have to do with the kind of person I am and the personal issues I had at the time. I was very alone in New York, and the show has a lot of stress related to it.
Bob Odenkirk / Actor
Related
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Stress
Alone Time Experience
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I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.
Elizabeth Wurtzel / Writer
Collecting
Competing
Destined
Football Team
Goddess
Prom
Saturday
Saturday Night
Meant
Captain
Date
Excursion
Sacrifices
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I had just left 'Saturday Night Live' when I came to 'The Daily Show,' and it just felt like Jon was on my side. I'll always be grateful to him for that. I just got the impression he wanted me to succeed, and then I wanted to succeed for him. I think that's good leadership.
Rob Riggle / Actor
Be Grateful
Daily Show
Good Leadership
Impression
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Jon
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You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.
Tom Shales / Critic
Getting Older
Heard
Host
Musical
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Almost
Also
Begins
Night Live Never
Read
Either
Getting
Older
Guest
Off
Well
Story
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I do feel like anything benefits from character logic. That can be from the dumbest ad to the greatest Shakespearean drama to the silliest 'Saturday Night Live' sketch. There is a certain specificity in detail, which you can get when you're paying attention to stuff like that.
David Harbour /
Attention
Benefits
Drama
Logic
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Specificity
Ad
Detail
Dumbest
Paying
Shakespearean
Silliest
Sketch
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I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday, and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system.
Chael Sonnen / Mixed Martial Artist
Belief
Borderline
Church
Disappointed
Found
Illegal
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Sunday
Since
Another
Boy
God Man Way
Cared
Ever
Entire
Every Sunday
Greatly
Rethink
System
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You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.
Eric Stoltz / Actor
Brian
Fever
Good Way
Growing Up
Handsome
Mean
Saturday
Saturday Night
Silly
Grow Up
Image
John Travolta
Super
Voices
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I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.
Peter Capaldi / Actor
Anxious
Attractive
Documentaries
Ripe
Saturday
Saturday Night
Love Always Look
Love Always Night
Interesting People
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People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.
David E. Kelley / Writer
Home
Audience
Dinner
Flip
Night
People
Saturday
Saturday Night
Television
Count
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On 'Saturday Night Live,' I never really wrote. You know, I would just - I would let the writers cast me into the show. So my strength - and I put all my energies into performance. I just couldn't deal with the rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, and it was hard for me.
Tracy Morgan / Actor
Rejection
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Energies
Sketches
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Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, 'Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.'
Elvis Mitchell / Film Critic
Boyfriend
Adapted
Adolescence
Bees
Fey
Gossip
Helping
Interaction
Nonfiction
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Teenage
Teenage Girl
Cliques
Queen
Performer
Realities
Societal
Survive
Tina
Tina Fey
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I went to see the Go-Go's on a Saturday night in '78 and had the best time. I was so serious about the way I played but they were having a blast. They weren't quite ready, but man there was something special. The girls just needed someone to push 'em a little and I eventually pushed.
Gina Schock /
Blast
Saturday
Saturday Night
Something Special
Best Time
Best Time Man
Go-Go
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Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.
Adam Mckay / Screenwriter
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Allowed
Guys
Park
Rewrite
Rule
Simpsons
South Park
Table
The Simpsons
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We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people.
Todd English / Chef
Please
Restaurants
Saturday
Saturday Night
Thousand
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I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.
Mindy Kaling / Actress
Kids
Doctors
Night
Parent
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Silent
Sneak
Doctor
Downstairs
Hall
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I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.
Norm Macdonald / Comedian
Conan
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Upstairs
Time Relationship Me
Guest
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A lot of the original people on 'SNL' came through Chicago - and Toronto, I'm sure - but Chicago was the center of it all. When I was there, Chris Farley - I knew him; we hung out and stuff - he went off to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was like, 'It's possible to be from here and make it.'
Jay Chandrasekhar / Actor
Hung
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Snl
Toronto
Night People Live
Chris
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I recently saw this home video where my brother is playing this character Arsenio Grimley, who is a mix of Arsenio Hall and Ed Grimley - which, clearly, is my parents' doing, because he's, like, 10. He's the host, I'm every guest, and then my dad is Elton John. That was a Saturday night.
Abbi Jacobson / Actress
Host
Saturday
Saturday Night
Elton
Elton John
Guest
Hall
Mix
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During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
Adam Garcia / Actor
Dance
Inspirational
Audience
Fall
Fever
Laughter
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Act
Backward
Perform
Cast
Ended
Falling
Number
Followed
Portion
Tried
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Arguably, the first five years of 'Saturday Night Live' were some of the most radical things ever seen on television. When NBC said, 'Okay, you can do a show from 11:30 to 1 on Saturday night,' they didn't think anyone would watch. It was like giving a piece of the candy store to the kids.
Richard Belzer / Stand-Up Comedian
Candy
Five
Giving
Nbc
Night
Okay
Radical
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Television
Arguably
Seen
Candy Store
Watch
Piece
Store
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
Ina Garten / Author
Home
Bedtime
Coffee
Dessert
Dinner
Exhausted
Party
Saturday
Saturday Night
Arrive
Elaborate
Go Home
Meal
Pull
Successfully
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I don't think we were shy so much as we were terrified. Especially when we did 'Saturday Night Live' on live TV. We looked really animatronic because we were scared, but it came off as being this alien sort of attitude, which served us well, because people were like, 'Whoa, this is so weird.'
Kate Pierson / Vocalist
Attitude
Live Tv
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Scared
Shy
Terrified
Weird
Tv
Alien
Looked
Served
Whoa
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Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.
Chevy Chase / Comedian
Moving On
Chaplin
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Me Night Live
Lily
Marx
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One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia.
Robert C. Merton /
Birthday
Graduation
New York
Blind
Columbia
Five
June
Married
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Soap
Soap Operas
Television
After
Bandstand
Show
Date
Clark
Model
Network
Popular
Operas
Regular
York
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Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.
Clive Sinclair /
Function
Magic
Manhood
Performing
Sabbath
Saturday
Saturday Night
Stolen
Western
Bride
Turning
Embraces
Similar
Swing
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I got the call to play Tony Manero in 'Saturday Night Fever' in Madrid, a role I'd always wanted, as it's such a well-constructed show, and my background is in musical theatre. I'd been travelling back and forth between London and Spain for auditions and had been borrowing money from friends to do it.
Juan Pablo Di Pace / Actor
Auditions
Borrowing
Fever
Madrid
Musical Theatre
Saturday
Saturday Night
Spain
Forth
Tony
Travelling
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I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, 'Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or 'MTV.' I think 'Vice' is in that category now.
Tom Freston /
Mtv
Rolling
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Category
Connection
Measure
Rolling Stone
Stone
Vice
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I did two matches for WCW, for 'Saturday Night' and for 'WorldWide.' Scott D'Amore was booking the extra talent. I remember I was really torn about it. I was like, 'Hmm... I don't want to do that. I don't want to just be an extra guy. I want so much more than that,' but I was flat broke, and it was 500 bucks.
Edge / Actor
Broke
Bucks
Guy
Hmm
Night
Remember
Saturday
Saturday Night
Talent
Torn
Two
Did
Booking
Extra
Flat
Just Be
Matches
Scott
Worldwide
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I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'
Jimmy Fallon / Television Host
Birthday
Cake
Cutting
Fountain
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Shooting
Stars
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Coin
Threw
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I was into the Mets because my Dad worked at IBM where he got free Mets tickets, so I was into the Mets... then I got to 'Saturday Night Live' where my boss has unbelievable N.Y. Yankees tickets, so he invites us to the games. I'm going to all the games, so I might as well root for the team I'm gonna go sit with.
Jimmy Fallon / Television Host
Dad
Boss
Games
Ibm
Invites
Mets
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Team
Tickets
Unbelievable
Yankees
Gonna
Root
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I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.
Will Ferrell / Comedian
Funny
Able
Add
Careers
Felt
Lost
Night
People
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Whole
Love Great Always
Funny Love Great
Bill
Bill Murray
Career
Comedies
Landmark
Phase
Similar
Translation
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I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.
James Belushi / Actor
Drama
My Time
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Theatre
Thinking
Time Work Movies
According
Comedies
Curly
Michael
Dramas
Work Time Movies
Jim
Popular
Oliver
Oliver Stone
Stone
Sue
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I think women have always been funny. But when Tina Fey became head writer at 'Saturday Night Live,' the culture shifted, and women gained a bigger voice in comedy. It's not as if Hollywood producers are feminists. It's more that Hollywood said, ''Bridesmaids' made us so much money, all we want now is funny women.'
Cecily Strong / Actress
Bigger
Bridesmaids
Comedy
Hollywood
Night
Producers
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Voice
Writer
Became
Feminists
Gained
Head
Shifted
So Much Money
Tina
Tina Fey
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I have found that people who really want to work at 'Saturday Night Live' and pursue it get pretty close. You have to be funny - but everyone who works there, it was their dream to work there. So it's kind of nice in that way - there's a lot of people who say, 'I just always wanted to do this, and now I'm doing it.'
John Mulaney / Actor
Night
Pursue
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Funny Work Always
Funny Work People
Works
Close
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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
Dana Carvey / Actor
Chance
Five
Fulfillment
Murphy
Night
Rehearsing
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Sneak
Stories
Television
Two
Wonder
Years
Funny Chance Me
Watch
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Joe
National
Took
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I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called 'Martin.' From there I went on to become the most notable black comic on 'Saturday Night Live' since Eddie Murphy.
Tracy Morgan / Actor
Bronx
Comic
Murphy
Notable
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Unknown
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Grown
Martin
Network
Regular
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The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader.
Andy Daly / Actor
Hung
Night
Particular
Related
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Billy
Interested
Christopher
Crystal
Short
Guest
Word
Just Something
Season
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I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything.
Olly Murs /
Music Career
Presenting
Rubbish
Saturday
Saturday Night
Worried
Factor
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I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.
Hannibal Buress / Comedian
Jobs
Hard Work
Hours
Late
Might
Night
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Three
Yeah
Nights
Weeks
One Or Two
Schedule
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'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the Practical theater. I believe in it wholeheartedly and will do it the rest of my life. But there's also legitimate theater, be it comedy, drama, classics or modern plays which I think is important and something I want to be involved in too.
Brad Hall /
Arena
Comedy
Drama
Involved
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Theater
Wholeheartedly
Life Love Great
Classics
Great Fun
Legitimate
Plays
Practical
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Roseanne was a huge groundbreaking comedian. Margaret Cho. Ellen DeGeneres, and then on 'Saturday Night Live,' the era of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler sort of helped to bring in an awareness of a new generation of women comedians, often women who were feminist in their comedy, who were unafraid - and this came from the genre of show that was emerging.
Rebecca Traister /
Amy
Awareness
Comedian
Emerging
Fey
Genre
New Generation
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Unafraid
Comedians
Ellen
Margaret
Tina
Tina Fey
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