Aidy Bryant Quotes

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

I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.

Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

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.

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

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

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.

'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.

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

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on '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 had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' with my little brother. We were obsessed with 'I Love Lucy.' And I just remember thinking, 'I want to do that.' I love old comedic actresses - Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball.

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.

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

It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.

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

'SNL' has kind of been like my school.

As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

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.

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women because it's so hard, and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it. I'm a big fan of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and people like that.

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

I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.