Bill Hader Quotes & Sayings

“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?”

“'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 have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.”

“Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.”

“Turns out typecasting is a real thing.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”