Rachel Dratch Quotes

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

I am always so happy to be at 'SNL.' I still feel like a kid when I'm there, like I can't believe I'm watching them make the show.

'SNL' is our main priority because that was our first big break.

'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.

The only show I ever really wanted to do was 'SNL.' It was some sort of merging of my talent and my metabolism. It suited who I am and what I do really well, though whatever I was thinking it was, it kept mutating and growing. At first, I didn't even know that the cast would be the thing everybody talked about. We thought it would be the hosts.

I don't think we fully understood what the implications could be when we found out we were doing 'SNL.'

'SNL' after-parties are sort of like a time to celebrate your successes and drown your sorrows, depending on how the show went for you.

People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.

SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.

I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life.

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.'

At 'SNL' there's framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It's linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you're at the end of it.

My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch the monologue - it was supposed to feature Barack Obama, but we couldn't get him - it was with William Shatner. But if you watch it, Guy Fieri is sitting in the front row.

'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.

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.

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

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.

It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.

I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.

'Weekend Update' can be presented as a full 20-minute sketch, and there's a lot of room there.