“I love the rain. It’s my favorite weather.”
― Kristen Wiig
“When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there’s nothing more satisfying.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I’m not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.”
― Kristen Wiig
“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.”
― Kristen Wiig
“With improv, it’s a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I enjoy being characters rather than myself.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that’s for sure.”
― Kristen Wiig
“There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I’ll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be ‘comedies’ and not ‘female’ or ‘male,’ and everyone gets an equal opportunity.”
― Kristen Wiig
“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.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I am shyer than most people think.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn’t have to do it.”
― Kristen Wiig
“People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I really, really want to go to Paris. I’ve never been.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.”
― Kristen Wiig
“A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that’s something that people don’t really talk about, but if you’re asked to be in a wedding, you’re gonna have to fork over some cash.”
― Kristen Wiig
“The weddings that I’ve been in have been pretty mellow.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I think it’s an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.”
― Kristen Wiig
“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.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I’m a vegetarian; I eat a lot of tofu and soy.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.”
― Kristen Wiig
“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.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I wish I had a lot of tattoos.”
― Kristen Wiig
“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.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I roller skated when I was younger, but when you’re on a track that’s slanted and you’re with other people all skating in a pack, it’s a whole different sport.”
― Kristen Wiig
“At parties, I’ll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, ‘Forget it,’ and then start eating things.”
― Kristen Wiig
“Maybe studios don’t want to see women acting in a way that isn’t womanly. Maybe people don’t.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I would never wear fur.”
― Kristen Wiig
“It’s not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.”
― Kristen Wiig
“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.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I feel like women are asked their age more than men.”
― Kristen Wiig
“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.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I wasn’t rich.”
― Kristen Wiig
“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.’”
― Kristen Wiig
“The public doesn’t want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.”
― Kristen Wiig
“There’s something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.”
― Kristen Wiig
“Why can’t there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?”
― Kristen Wiig
“I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you’re like, ‘What’s wrong with me?’”
― Kristen Wiig
“My friends back home are very supportive.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I never think if I do an impression of someone, I’m never making fun of them.”
― Kristen Wiig
“It’s fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.”
― Kristen Wiig
“If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.”
― Kristen Wiig
“Even in this day and age, if you’re not married, there are people who are like, ‘Awww! Don’t worry, it’ll happen for you someday.’”
― Kristen Wiig
“I always say I want to look haunted.”
― Kristen Wiig
“It’s a mystery to me what makes people laugh.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I don’t always just want to do the same thing.”
― Kristen Wiig
“You have to leave things that you love.”
― Kristen Wiig
“Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.”
― Kristen Wiig
“When you’re on your deathbed, you probably aren’t counting the movies you’ve made.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I don’t know if you can articulate an instinct.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I don’t rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I’d make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.”
― Kristen Wiig
“Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.”
― Kristen Wiig
“If you’re creating anything at all, it’s really dangerous to care about what people think.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I don’t know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.”
― Kristen Wiig
“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.”
― Kristen Wiig
“I just want to try and be in projects that are exciting to me.”
― Kristen Wiig
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