Kristen Wiig

“With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.”

“I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.”

“People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.”

“If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.”

“There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.”

“If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.”

“For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.”

“You have to leave things that you love.”

“I wasn't rich.”

“There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.”

“I always say I want to look haunted.”

“My friends back home are very supportive.”

“I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.”

“At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.”

“I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.”

“I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.”

“The good thing about 'SNL' is that it's the same people every week that you're working with, and we've all become so close and tight because we've worked together so long and so closely together.”

“It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.”

“I would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about.”

“The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.”