Cecily Strong Quotes

Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.

If I'm with people who are really positive and go with the flow, that's when the best ideas come out for me.

When you're writing, you're putting thought into what you want to express, and then you come up with it - it comes to you. When you're improvising, it's the same thing. You're writing. You just say it out loud right then, instead of saying, 'You think this might work?'

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

There is something special when creative people get together.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.

I write every day... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

I'm not a believer that you have to write every day. If I felt industrious, I'd spend ten hours a week writing. The writing is going on all the time in my head; the trick is to capture it. Showers are great. Traffic jams are great.

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

I've never had a plan - it was just to try and get with the people you like to play with, and try to do the best you can.

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'