Saturday Night Live Quotes - Page 4

• I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs.

  Norm MacDonald

  Wall, Night, Fire

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

  Rashida Jones

  Mom, Night, Watches

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• Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Night, Pie, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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

  Night, Would Be, Guests

  Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2010.

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• I wanted to come to Chicago. I also wanted to do "Saturday Night Live." And then I got to a place where I didn't want to do those things anymore.For the sketch comedy thing, I got cast on "MADtv," and that will kill any man's desire to do comedy.

  Simon Helberg

  Men, Night, Desire

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Character, Night, Saturday

  "Interview: Ashton Kutcher and Joshua Michael Stern on Jobs". Interview With Zaki Hasan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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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

  Kids, Night, Doctors

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.

  Tina Fey

  Night, Role Models, Leader

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• We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and Anne [Hathaway] is, they've both hosted Saturday Night Live, and they both did a good job at it. So they are accustomed to working with short rehearsal time, and live, lots of pressure, rewrites, things like that. They can make quick changes, which is very advantageous, and they're skilled comedians.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

  Fred Armisen

  Night, Thinking, Saturday

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

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• I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have already laid the groundwork. They're known around the world. People like that kind of surrealist, left-field humor, and that's what I do. And "Saturday Night Live," a lot of American humor. "The Simpsons," above all, the weird, left-field humor, which I love. And sardonic. So that's all I'm doing. I find that audience, and they're in every developed country around the world.

  Eddie Izzard

  Country, Night, Python

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• The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me.

  Tracy Morgan

  Night, Saturday, Materials

  "Tracy Morgan as the New Black". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. February 25, 2010.

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• Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

  Tracy Morgan

  Night, Saturday, University

  "Tracy Morgan: '30 Rock' Let Him Be Himself". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 25, 2013.

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• I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Writing, Mean, Night

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• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  Dana Carvey

  Night, Years, Television

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• I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

  Dana Carvey

  Night, Two, World

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

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• I dropped out of college my junior year to do saturday night live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Women, Night, College

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• I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

  Olivia Wilde

  Night, Saturday, Wanted

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• I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

  Emma Stone

  Night, Thinking, Careers

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• By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

  Sarah Silverman

  Night, Comedy, Saturday

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• I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set.

  Eddie Murphy

  Home, Night, Tvs

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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

  Night, Years, Two

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• I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

  Will Ferrell

  School, Night, Water

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• My brother, who's a few years older then me, went to college in New York. He said all of these people from Saturday Night Live do improv together in Upright Citizens Brigade, and I thought, "Oh, that sounds really cool." So when I got braces and couldn't play music anymore, I said to my parents that I wanted to go to New York and take a class at that place. They were remarkably on board with it. I got on the train, went up, took a class and I loved it.

  Zach Woods

  Brother, Night, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We know that the president [Donald Trump] watches "Saturday Night Live" because he tweets about it. He doesn't like it, but he keeps watching it.

  Peter Sagal

  Night, President, Watches

  Source: www.npr.org

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