168 Quotes by Bill Hader

One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

When you move to L.A. or New York, it's easy to get a little lost and forget your original goal.

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.

At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host.

I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie.