Quotes by Bill Hader

Bill Hader

American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director

Lived from: 1978 -

Category: Comedians | Movie | Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 7 june 1978

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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.
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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.'
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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!'
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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.
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  • My life is different since I moved back to L.A. from New York, mostly because I have a family and I don't go out.
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  • My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.
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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.
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  • My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'
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  • Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.
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  • The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
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  • 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.
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  • There's a movie called 'Pod People' that has a weird little anteater alien. That was a good alien.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.
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  • 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.
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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.
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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.
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  • When you're at your absolute, most exhausted... That's when you have to be at the top of your game.
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