Lindsay Shookus Quotes

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

People ask me, 'Did you always want to be on SNL?' No, actually, it never crossed my mind. It didn't even seem possible. It would've been like saying, 'Hey, do you wanna go to the moon?'

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.

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

'SNL' is our main priority because that was our first big break.

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

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

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

Somebody said, 'Get your agent to call the new Bob Cummings show. They're looking for a funny lady.' Within three hours, I had the job. That was January 1955. I had such fun with that show.

When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.

I love 'Insecure.' I want to play Issa Rae's sister. I do know Issa Rae, but we ain't besties or nothing.

When I was hired to 'SNL,' I was 25 years old.

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'

On 'State of Affairs,' we're going after some names that you wouldn't think would traditionally do TV. A show that shoots in Los Angeles is such a rare bird in hand that I think we're gonna have the pick of the litter.

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

We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.

Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'

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

'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

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.'

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

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

I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'