Kristen Wiig Quotes

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

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

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.

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

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

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

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

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

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

I wish I had a lot of tattoos.

I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.

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.

I would never wear fur.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

I am shyer than most people think.

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 love the rain. It's my favorite weather.

Don't do something just because someone else wants you to

I would put Flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking.

I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.

I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

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.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

When you're on your deathbed you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

Women do get drunk, they do get sick and they do get food poisoning. It seems to be a bit of a surprise to people that they are seeing it.

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

I'm one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.

I love kids. All my best friends have kids, and I love, love, love kids.

I am a big David Bowie fan.

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

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

I don't rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.

I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.

I always say I want to look haunted.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.

Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

I enjoy being characters rather than myself.