Quotes By Kristen Wiig

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 wasn't rich.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You have to leave things that you love.

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

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.'