Kristen Wiig Quotes

I am a big David Bowie fan.

When you're a woman in your thirties, and maybe you don't really know what you want to do with your life, but it seems like everyone else does, and your best friend gets married, and it forces you to look at yourself. I don't know if I described that in a very funny way.

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

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

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

I always say I want to look haunted.

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

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.

I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

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

It's fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.

I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.

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

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

I'm a vegetarian; I eat a lot of tofu and soy.

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

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.

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

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

People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.

I feel there's so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life's going to be and what their career is, and are you married yet? Are you single? But you're 30. And girlfriends are so important. You can have a boyfriend or husband when you're 30, but you still need your girlfriends.

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?'

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.

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

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

My friends back home are very supportive.

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

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

I never think if I do an impression of someone, I'm never making fun of them.

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

I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.

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

You have to leave things that you love.

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

I wish I had a lot of tattoos.

I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

I just want to try and be in projects that are exciting to me.

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

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

I am shyer than most people think.

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.

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 would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about.

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

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