Kate McKinnon Quotes

'Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life.

'Saturday Night Live' is live television. Nothing can compare to that.

'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.'

I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

I really just love dumb humor. I watch a lot of SNL.

'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

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?'

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

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.

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.'

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

I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'

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.

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

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.

'SNL' was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I don't have any regrets.

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.

The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.

For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.