80 Saturday Night Live Quotes

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Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too. — Jill Scott

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live. — Mary-Kate Olsen

Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody. — Sam Cooke

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.' — Tina Fey

Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low. — Howard Stern

I plan to join the 'SNL' band as a maraca player and stand behind saxophonist Lenny Pickett. That way they will at least cut to me before commercial breaks. I'll be sure to look right into camera. — John Mulaney

NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me. — Carson Daly

In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability. — Anthony Jeselnik

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else. — Jason Sudeikis

The best way to describe our live show is that it's like hanging out with your best friends from TV for a night. — James Murray

We did sketch comedy, performed live improv, and then we made the transition to TV with 'Impractical Jokers.' — Joe Gatto

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on. — Ed Mcmahon

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge. — John Oliver

Let's have the type of night where it's 5 a.m. and one of us has definitely punched someone who's been on a Disney Channel show. — Elijah

We're living in a Leslie Nielsen movie. — Dave Smith

Short Saturday Night Live Quotes

  • Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans. — Mike Birbiglia
  • We're an improv group and a sketch comedy group called the Tenderloins, that's our alter ego. — James Murray
  • There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. — T. J. Miller
  • People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV? — Ric Ocasek
  • In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen. — Ted Koppel
  • Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx – what a blast. — Vivica Fox
  • You know, comedy and horror are flip sides of the same coin. — James Murray
  • It is difficult not to write satire. — Juvenal
  • I'm a late-night guy. — Dane Cook
  • Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. — Fred Allen

Saturday Night Live Image Quotes

Saturday night live quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Deep Thoughts Quotes

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once. — Tupac Shakur

If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. — T. D. Jakes

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. - Michael Porter

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. — Michael Porter

Saturday night live quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family! — T. D. Jakes

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Saturday night live quote Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Why is it that weeks and months and years go by so quickly, all in a blur, but moments last forever? — Jennifer Donnelly

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you. — Ayn Rand

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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More Saturday Night Live Quotes

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. — Christopher Walken

And I can see Russia from my house. — Tina Fey

Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way. — Will Ferrell

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show. — Adam Sandler

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night. — Robert McNamara

And I watch Saturday Night Live religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams. — Ty Burrell

I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings. — Carl Icahn

I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER. — Sayings

I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me. — Al Franken

I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper. — Andy Samberg

Maternity leave is over for Tina Fey of Saturday Night Live. She'll be back behind the Weekend Update anchor desk for this week's episode, her first show since giving birth to daughter Alice on Sept. 10. I had to get back to work, .. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I have only a verbal agreement. — Tina Fey

Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow. — Jane Curtin

Live every day as if it were Saturday night. — Al McGuire

I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set. — Eddie Murphy

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. — Sarah Silverman

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything. — Victoria Jackson

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live. — Phil Hartman

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian. — Jamie Farr

I call you once...you never dialed back. Twice...you never dialed back. Saturday morning, live, I'm on Soul Train, talkin' to Don Cornelius. Saturday night, my phone rings... Saturday night, I won't answer. Saturday night, my phone rings again... Saturday night, I don't answer. — Kool Keith

One of my career ambitions was fulfilled working with John [Hurt]. I loved his work long before I ever had the idea of being an actor, so I was nervous to meet him. I was like a fanboy, like that annoying character on 'Saturday Night Live'. I'm sitting there. 'Do you remember when you were in 'Midnight Express'? Remember that scene you were in?' And he doesn't disappoint. — Gary Oldman

When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work. — Molly Shannon

Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night. — Candice Bergen

I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, "Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or MTV." I think 'Vice' is in that category now. — Tom Freston

I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular. — James Belushi

Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living! — Mother Jones

I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'. — Fred Armisen

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner. — Emma Stone

If it weren't for The Groundlings, I would never be on Saturday Night Live. — Chris Kattan

Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live. — Maya Rudolph

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at "Saturday Night Live," and that is so cool. — Tina Fey

They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation. — Michael York

I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice. — Julia Louis-Dreyfus

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. — Kevin Richardson

Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions. — Henry Rollins

I have found that people who really want to work at 'Saturday Night Live' and pursue it get pretty close. You have to be funny - but everyone who works there, it was their dream to work there. So it's kind of nice in that way - there's a lot of people who say, 'I just always wanted to do this, and now I'm doing it.' — John Mulaney

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it. — Lindsey Vonn

Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live. — Geraldo Rivera

I didn't respond to the kind of sarcastic tone. It felt like some of the Sarah Palin speech was written as though it were a Saturday Night Live newscast. Maybe that's because she looks very similar . . . She's got her Tina Fey thing going. — Eddie Vedder

When I was on Saturday Night Live, I was furious at some of the choices that were being made. None of us are all happy about every choice that's being made, but that's another part about being there for a while. You start seeing why they do it, and you've just got to try to get your punches in while you can. — Horatio Sanz

I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band and we worked really hard and did not get very far. I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky. That's never lost in me, that I went through Saturday Night Live. — Fred Armisen

We know that the president [Donald Trump] watches "Saturday Night Live" because he tweets about it. He doesn't like it, but he keeps watching it. — Peter Sagal

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career. — Rob Lowe

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