Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Kate McKinnon
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
I find donating stuff to be the biggest hassle.
I hate the feeling of having hair on my neck.
I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
I just like playing unique characters that I love.
I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.
I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
I pride myself on being tragically uncool.
I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.
I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.
I feel like science and art are cousins.
I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.
I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.
I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'
I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.
If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.
The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.
I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.
When I heard that Paul Feig was directing an all-female 'Ghostbusters,' I was prepared to do anything to be a part of this, to be a part of what sounded like an incredible project.
You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.
I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
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