Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Casey Wilson
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.
If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.
Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from 'Annie Hall.'
My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'
Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.
When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.
Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I've just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.
Debra Winger blows me away, always.
The comedian just wants to get a laugh.
I think there's almost nothing that I won't, sadly, do for a laugh. It's a problem, actually.
I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.
I'm a voyeuristic American.
New York is hard living. It's fun living, but it's hard.
I actually do enjoy the Kardashians' show, and I know that other people do enjoy it, but at the same time, they want to make fun of it. Like, I know that girls are watching that show - I'm just the only one courageous enough to say it. Other people are courageous in acts of war, but I'm courageous in my love for the Kardashians.
I don't love to fail.
I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.
Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.
I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.
I've started meditating, but I do have a quick temper.
Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.
You can't always tell if someone's gay over Twitter, but when he's talking to you about 'Real Housewives,' it's probably OK to assume.
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
Kenya Moore is everything to me. She's everything.
Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'
At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.
So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.
All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.
I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.
Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.
It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.
Everything related to 'SNL,' that was very sudden - from the time I found out I was joining the cast to the time I could read on a blog that someone watching the show thinks I'm fat, that was about 30 days. That blog part, that could've moved a little more slowly. But hey - it's all material, right?
Not everyone is married at 25 and taken care of.
If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it's a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing.
My dad always said that 90 percent of marital problems could be solved by getting your blood sugar up, and he's right! So I would say pick a partner who's forgiving when you have low blood sugar and threaten to drive your car through your shared home.
I've always been very animated.
I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV.
When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.
If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world.
Posturing is funny to me.
I love the idea of someone getting knocked down repeatedly, but they still believe in love.
I love Nene Leakes, of course.
I'm getting into all sorts of L.A. things. I go to bikram yoga, I went to an astrologer recently... I'm accepting L.A. for who she is. She's a dark temptress.
Jake Johnson is one of my oldest friends.
I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.
I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.
I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.
My dad's cool. He is socially liberal.
I'm in therapy, and I think everyone should be.
There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?
If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.
I still am not a size two - I don't think I could get there if I wanted to.
My goal is to generate more material for myself.
My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'
When you're on a road trip, anything goes.
It's always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see and love.
My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.
Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can't tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you're really up to. I'm just seeing the performance of all the work you're doing and the look you're giving; it's very hard to get to the center. It's very hard to see what's what.
Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.
With agents, I've learned to bring them into the process when I feel confident. You're the only one that can really know what's right for your career. You're on a wing and a prayer through most of it.
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