Lorne Michaels Quotes

At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host.

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.

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.

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

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.

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'm hoping that, over the years, people will come back to 'MADtv' and think it isn't that bad. We had some really talented people on there.

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

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

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

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

'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

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.

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

I'm an 'SNL' junkie, and being backstage and seeing how it works behind the curtain for a couple days was something I'll never forget.

I was hired as an assistant at 'SNL' in 2002.

'Saturday Night Live' was 100% the most surreal TV we've ever done. Leonardo DiCaprio was on the same show.

I feel like every time I go out, I want to do a good job. I want people to say that he's just as good at stand-up as he is in some of the movies I've seen him in, so I try to do the best every time I go out there.

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.'

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

'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.

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.