“You only feel as good as your last sketch.”
― Casey Wilson
“It’s always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see and love.”
― Casey Wilson
“I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.”
― Casey Wilson
“At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.”
― Casey Wilson
“I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.”
― Casey Wilson
“I’m a voyeuristic American.”
― Casey Wilson
“Debra Winger blows me away, always.”
― Casey Wilson
“Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from ‘Annie Hall.’”
― Casey Wilson
“My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.”
― Casey Wilson
“Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.”
― Casey Wilson
“There’s a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you’re too under the radar, you get canceled?”
― Casey Wilson
“I’m the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.”
― Casey Wilson
“All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.”
― Casey Wilson
“I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.”
― Casey Wilson
“It’s certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.”
― Casey Wilson
“Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph – when they speak, everyone listens. Because they’re freaking hilarious.”
― Casey Wilson
“Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I’ve always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.”
― Casey Wilson
“If you’re going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven’t even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can’t be afraid to fail.”
― Casey Wilson
“I love the idea of someone getting knocked down repeatedly, but they still believe in love.”
― Casey Wilson
“I’m getting into all sorts of L.A. things. I go to bikram yoga, I went to an astrologer recently… I’m accepting L.A. for who she is. She’s a dark temptress.”
― Casey Wilson
“I’ve always been very animated.”
― Casey Wilson
“When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated – but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.”
― Casey Wilson
“I’ve started meditating, but I do have a quick temper.”
― Casey Wilson
“Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.”
― Casey Wilson
“I love Nene Leakes, of course.”
― Casey Wilson
“You can’t always tell if someone’s gay over Twitter, but when he’s talking to you about ‘Real Housewives,’ it’s probably OK to assume.”
― Casey Wilson
“I didn’t have the greatest ride on ‘SNL,’ but I always felt support from gay fans, which made me feel accepted within a place I didn’t feel totally accepted.”
― Casey Wilson
“There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.”
― Casey Wilson
“My mom’s brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world.”
― Casey Wilson
“On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ you wear so many hats there. You’re the prop person, the actor, you’re everything.”
― Casey Wilson
“I can never turn my creativity off.”
― Casey Wilson
“I want to see a ton more comedy for women.”
― Casey Wilson
“The woman I’d want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I’ve loved every single film she’s done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.”
― Casey Wilson
“I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.”
― Casey Wilson
“I think the key to working with my husband is that collaboration in comedy is best.”
― Casey Wilson
“My parents are both super funny, and I always knew I wanted to be on ‘SNL.’ My mom and I would watch it a lot.”
― Casey Wilson
“I’ll take discrimination if it’s in my favor!”
― Casey Wilson
“Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.”
― Casey Wilson
“Everything related to ‘SNL,’ that was very sudden – from the time I found out I was joining the cast to the time I could read on a blog that someone watching the show thinks I’m fat, that was about 30 days. That blog part, that could’ve moved a little more slowly. But hey – it’s all material, right?”
― Casey Wilson
“My dad always said that 90 percent of marital problems could be solved by getting your blood sugar up, and he’s right! So I would say pick a partner who’s forgiving when you have low blood sugar and threaten to drive your car through your shared home.”
― Casey Wilson
“My mom always worked, and I certainly don’t want to look back and think, ‘Well, I don’t have kids, but I’m glad I did that sitcom.’”
― Casey Wilson
“Kenya Moore is everything to me. She’s everything.”
― Casey Wilson
“If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it’s a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing.”
― Casey Wilson
“I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.”
― Casey Wilson
“My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at ‘SNL.’”
― Casey Wilson
“My goal is to generate more material for myself.”
― Casey Wilson
“Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I’ve just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.”
― Casey Wilson
“I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.”
― Casey Wilson
“So many shows don’t have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.”
― Casey Wilson
“I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.”
― Casey Wilson
“Jake Johnson is one of my oldest friends.”
― Casey Wilson
“I’ve met architects before, and they’re not living the life we see on TV.”
― Casey Wilson
“I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, ‘Oh, okay, babe,’ and I see it in scripts all the time.”
― Casey Wilson
“When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.”
― Casey Wilson
“Posturing is funny to me.”
― Casey Wilson
“I still am not a size two – I don’t think I could get there if I wanted to.”
― Casey Wilson
“New York is hard living. It’s fun living, but it’s hard.”
― Casey Wilson
“Even before I got on ‘SNL’ I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don’t mean to sound arrogant – I just thought I would be best suited to the form.”
― Casey Wilson
“Not everyone is married at 25 and taken care of.”
― Casey Wilson
“My dad’s cool. He is socially liberal.”
― Casey Wilson
“I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.”
― Casey Wilson
“I took a clown class at NYU – that’s where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.”
― Casey Wilson
“Something that’s good in the mini-culture of ‘Happy Endings’ is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what’s already great material – and also, we’re like, ‘Who is even watching this? Let’s just go for it.’”
― Casey Wilson
“I think there’s almost nothing that I won’t, sadly, do for a laugh. It’s a problem, actually.”
― Casey Wilson
“The comedian just wants to get a laugh.”
― Casey Wilson
“I don’t love to fail.”
― Casey Wilson
“With agents, I’ve learned to bring them into the process when I feel confident. You’re the only one that can really know what’s right for your career. You’re on a wing and a prayer through most of it.”
― Casey Wilson
“If you can have a laugh with someone, you’re then in each other’s world.”
― Casey Wilson
“I’m in therapy, and I think everyone should be.”
― Casey Wilson
“If you have a sense of your place in the world, that’s the best preparation for anything.”
― Casey Wilson
“When you’re on a road trip, anything goes.”
― Casey Wilson
“Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can’t tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you’re really up to. I’m just seeing the performance of all the work you’re doing and the look you’re giving; it’s very hard to get to the center. It’s very hard to see what’s what.”
― Casey Wilson
“I actually do enjoy the Kardashians’ show, and I know that other people do enjoy it, but at the same time, they want to make fun of it. Like, I know that girls are watching that show – I’m just the only one courageous enough to say it. Other people are courageous in acts of war, but I’m courageous in my love for the Kardashians.”
― Casey Wilson
“The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.”
― Casey Wilson
“The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone – which to the studio means that the specificity and uniqueness must be watered down. But I think mass audiences like things that are more specific and tend to have a voice, like ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ or ‘Superbad.’”
― Casey Wilson
“What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It’s sweet and sad – and, to me, hilarious.”
― Casey Wilson
“The alternative comedy scene is actually pretty small, I guess.”
― Casey Wilson
“Frankly, ‘Bride Wars’ got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love.”
― Casey Wilson
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