Bill Hader Quotes

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.

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'.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

I did theatrical caricatures.

I'm usually cast by people who are oddly goofy.

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.

I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.

People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.

I love how much people are drawn to my 'impersonations' of Trump because they aren't really impersonations at all. I'm not trying to be Trump so much as I'm trying to make Trump me. In doing them, I simply ask myself, 'How would I, Sarah Cooper, say these words?'

Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life and all too human.

Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with 'The Office' the naturalism was everything so it didn't feel like doing comedy; it just felt like doing a really offensive character who thought he was funny.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.