Bill Hader Quotes

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous.

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.

I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

I've never had a plan, I've always done things from instinct.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

I think I get credit for my timing because most of the time, I really have no idea where I'm going with it.

I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

I'm not a planner. I like to try something different, to just see what happens.

I'm a guy who likes to make it up as he goes along.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.