Kristen Wiig Quotations

I love the rain. It's my favorite weather.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You have to leave things that you love.

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

Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.

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

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.

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

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

I wish I had a lot of tattoos.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

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.

People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing for artists. It's like, 'Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.

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

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

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

People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.

The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.

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.

A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.

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.

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. Which I am not recommending teenagers do if they read this.

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

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 always say I want to look haunted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 am a big David Bowie fan.

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

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

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.

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

You have all this stuff going on in your head, like, 'I can't believe seven years has gone by, and I'm going to miss all these people.' And I'm like, 'Oh, by the way, Mick Jagger is to my right, and I just danced a waltz with him.' So there's that.

I enjoy being characters rather than myself.

I am shyer than most people think.

I would never wear fur.

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 used to carry my dad's empty guitar case around the neighborhood because I wanted people to think I played the guitar. I would put flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking.

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 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.

Don't become something just because someone else wants you to or because it's easy; you won't be happy. You have to do what you really, really, really, really want to do, even if it scares the s-t out of you.