Ana Gasteyer Quotes

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

I live in Brooklyn.

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the challenge is always to find a cool and innovative way to do it and, obviously, to not repeat your jokes.

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

I've always lived in a city.

It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles ...

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.