Kate McKinnon

Actress

154 Quotes

I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.

There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

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.

I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.

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.

I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.

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.

I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.

I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

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!

It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.

My most frequent collaborators at S.N.L. are the incredibly gifted writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider!

I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

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?

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