A biography for Bill Haderhasn’t been written yet.
“I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'”
“'Vanity Fair' did this grid thing a couple years ago, connecting people who've worked together, and I had the most branches on it or whatever, because I'd worked with so-and-so and so-and-so worked with so-and-so, and I was kind of in the middle.”
“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!'”
“I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.”
“I'm very close to my sisters.”
“I don't think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, 'Oh, I don't even want to look at my face.'”
“Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.”
“David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.”
“When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.”