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Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.
When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.
Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.
There's a movie called 'Pod People' that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.
I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.
I collect movies. So I have all those in binders. I don't have the DVDs out. I put them in binders.
When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.
I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.
I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.
My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.
My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'
The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.
I get migraines a lot. I get them when I'm stressed out. My brain freezes, and I just try to get through that.
Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.
You can be the lead in a movie just for the sake of being a lead in a movie, or you can just be in a good movie.
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.
I'm never the romantic lead. I'm the guy walking in on the romantic lead, going, "Oh sorry! I'll leave you guys alone."
When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.
The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.
I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.
I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.
Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.
I like watching Kate McKinnon do something - there's a joy in seeing a new move from somebody and going, 'Oh, she can do that.'
Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.
I would do 'Superbad,' and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.
When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.
Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.
When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.
At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host.
The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'
One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.
I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.
The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.
When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get.
I was in a sketch group in L.A., and we were playing, like, backyards in Glendale and stuff. It was pretty ugly because we didn't have any money.
You learn quickly at 'SNL' you get in trouble if you compare yourself to other people, where they're at, or what other people had done before you.
'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing.
Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.
A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.
In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.
I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have anybody to play off of.
I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.
I've seen people who come to work say, 'No, I'm doing it this way, and that's that.' I'm the opposite - I like being out of my element; it's where I like to live.
I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.
I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.
I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.