Noel Wells

“I've had this problem my whole life where I feel like I'm laughing all the time, and I feel like I understand what makes me laugh. But other people don't see it. It's very confusing.”

“I see so many women thinking other women are their enemies - especially when they don't have a job or a guy or whatever. It's like, 'I don't have what I want, and she does, so she must be my enemy.' I find it confusing and not fair and sad.”

“As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.”

“I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists.”

“Just as performers, I think you'd be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.”

“I'm a progressive person, very liberal. I have this thing in my head where I'm going to change the world, but with comedy.”

“I remember, when I was a little kid playing with the 25 Legos I had, I thought, 'If I just had a camera, I could film different setups and make it look like I have way more Legos and tell a story.' I didn't get a camera, though, until I basically got an iPhone.”

“There is so much incredible talent in Hollywood, and it's crazy to me that we see the same people over and over again in projects.”

“The movies and comedy that I love the most, even if there are men starring in them, often the men wrote the parts for themselves.”

“I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.”

“'S.N.L.' is the comedy establishment. Of course you want to go through that, because you want that stamp of approval. But it has its own identity, and our voices didn't mesh for whatever reason - or they decided we didn't belong.”

“I feel like if I had a spirit animal, it would be Holly Hunter.”

“Getting on 'SNL' wasn't just about getting cast. I had written all this stuff in my audition, and I wrote several things that got on the air. But to me, I've never been interested in being picked. So when I do get sent things, most of the time I do pass on them because it doesn't feel like it would be fulfilling.”

“I like to be good. I like being good at things. I wish that was valued instead of me being 'better' than another woman who also writes things and makes movies.”

“I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That's how evolution happens.”

“I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it's not going to work. It's not going to be romantic, and it's probably going to be one-sided.”

“'S.N.L.' has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It's become this big machine. I don't want to be plugged into a machine.”

“I don't necessarily want to be famous.”

“Nobody gets into comedy because they feel like they're cool and funny. If they do, they're megalomaniacs.”

“As a creative person, you have to keep going. There's no defined career path. There's no security.”