Kate McKinnon Quotes

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.

On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I used to do impersonations: Harry Butler in the wild, or I'd do Gough Whitlam.

I've been told that I'm good at impersonating people.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

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

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

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

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

I love doing impressions.

It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.'

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my street for my parents, I remember. And in school, I did the same thing with all the teachers. It was just like, I mean, it was something I loved to do. I don't think there was a time when I wasn't doing it. I was always doing it.

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

Eventually, all of our impressions will be dead. That's one of my favorite things about Paul F. Tompkins' 'Dead Authors' podcast is to be able to do impressions of people you've never otherwise think to do or get to do. I did Walt Whitman on there, and that was really fun.

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.