Vanessa Bayer Quotes

I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.

I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'

When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.

Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

It's still amazing to me to walk down the halls of 'SNL.' You see pictures of the greatest comedians we grew up worshiping, basically. It's crazy to be able to still work there.

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

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

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.'

There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.

It's nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that 'SNL' is what my skill set is best designed for.

You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

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 been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

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

My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents' house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I'm on 'Downton Abbey.'

My parents are both super funny, and I always knew I wanted to be on 'SNL.' My mom and I would watch it a lot.

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

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.

I love Jerry Lewis. I loved Jim Carrey when I was younger, and Mike Myers and Phil Hartman, all the 'Saturday Night Live' people in the late '80s.

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.

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

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