Saturday Night Live Quotes

I am a fan of 'SNL' and a big Jimmy Fallon fan, too.

My most frequent collaborators at S.N.L. are the incredibly gifted writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider!

I was hired as an assistant at 'SNL' in 2002.

You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

I had all the intentions of being the next Eddie Murphy.

Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

Tina Fey is just amazing. And she is just so funny and so good hearted.

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

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

I love Steve Carell.

If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Rob Schneider and David Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this "Click", actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live.

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.

I'm Kevin Nealon, and that's news to me.

And I can see Russia from my house.

Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

My showbiz career started with 'SNL,' and to write an 'SNL' book... well, there are already enough of those.

I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.

'Saturday Night Live' is a whole different arena. It's great fun and I love it and that's what we do in the Practical theater. I believe in it wholeheartedly and will do it the rest of my life. But there's also legitimate theater, be it comedy, drama, classics or modern plays which I think is important and something I want to be involved in too.

I am constantly amazed by Tina Fey. And I am Tina Fey.