Will Sasso Quotes

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Even when I was at 'SNL,' I didn't do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them - I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show - but I didn't have any experience.

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.

If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.

We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy.

John Belushi made me want to be an actor.

As a child, I would watch 'Frasier' a lot, and there was one episode with Derek Jacobi where he was playing this Shakespearean actor that was a terrible Hamlet. And he reenacted the performance, and for days I went on. I'd perform and do that, and I knew I wanted to do something kind of like that as a kid for awhile.

Acting is more creative and liberating than production.

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.

I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.

I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

When I was at Upright Citizens Brigade, I would pretend to be a sad, drunk rapper.

Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious.

Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.