I find donating stuff to be the biggest hassle.
— Kate McKinnon
When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
Maddie Ziegler is the most amazing dancer I've ever seen, and I'm so obsessed with her. I was obsessed with her even before she did her first Sia video.
'Mean Girls' stands the test of time as one of the greatest comedies ever produced. I've seen it way too many times, and I just think it's the most brilliant thing ever written. I love it so much.
I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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.'
It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
I will not hear a word against him. I love my Bieber!
I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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?
I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
When I heard that Paul Feig was directing an all-female 'Ghostbusters,' I was prepared to do anything to be a part of this, to be a part of what sounded like an incredible project.
I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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 have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.
I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
My most frequent collaborators at S.N.L. are the incredibly gifted writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider!
Everyone has some kind of light inside them.
I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
I feel like science and art are cousins.
I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.
I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'
Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'
It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.
I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
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!
I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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 couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.
If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.
