Top 155 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Hader - Page 3

I wrote a fan e-mail to Michael Chabon.

I'm very close to my sisters.

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.

I set the time on my iPhone to be 30 minutes late, so I'm only an hour and a half late to appointments now.

People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

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.

Fred Willard still makes me laugh.

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

I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

I'm always up before everybody else. I also crash at 3 o'clock when everybody's at their prime.

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.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

The idea of a Chicago band that wanted to sing songs about California is really funny. Having never been to California.

If a guy doesn't like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.

I can't cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal.

I'm never the romantic lead. I'm the guy walking in on the romantic lead, going, "Oh sorry! I'll leave you guys alone."

I move out here, and next thing I know I'm 25, and the only thing I've heard is, 'Can you get a coffee, can you hurry up with the thing, blah blah blah.' It was nice doing something and hearing someone go, 'Hey, you're good at this.'

I remember getting in the elevator for my audition and there was a guy next to me who had a backpack full of props and wigs and things, and I went, 'Oh, my God, that guy is so prepared, I have nothing, I have no props.' And that was Andy Samberg. And Andy Samberg said he was looking at me going, 'Oh, that guy has no props. He doesn't need props.' And that was the first time we met, was in that elevator.

Richard Grieco once asked for a bunch of M&M's

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.

Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.

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.

My kids, they're always embarrassed when my voice shows up in something. I took them to Inside Out, and my voice comes in, and they were like, "Ugh, Dad, what are you doing? Get out of there."

No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

The best thing to do is to get out in front of an audience as much as you can, and learn from the experience.

My kids, they're always embarrassed when my voice shows up in something.

I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one."

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have anybody to play off of.