Armisen Quotes

#1. I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.

Cecily Strong

#2. Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.

Bill Hader

#3. Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.

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#4. I've met Tony Danza. He was really nice. And he looks ... I feel like he hasn't aged. He looks exactly the same. He's just Tony Danza. He's exactly the same as he's always been.

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#5. I met Steve Jobs once. In '06? He had a sense of humor.

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#6. I feel bad for everyone I've gone out with.

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#7. I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.

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#8. The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that ... I feel like that's dead.

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#9. People are always nice, so I can't complain. My name used to be SNL! More and more, people call me by my name.

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#10. That smile on Stive Jobs face ... My impersonation came from being a fan.

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#11. I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.

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#12. Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

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#13. Remember that there's no one way of doing things ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

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

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#15. I think I was a terrible husband, I think I'm a terrible boyfriend.

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#16. Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

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#17. I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.

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#18. There are people who are genetically made to start record labels, and I'm not one of those people. People just have it in their blood and are good at it. Corey Rusk from Touch and Go and Ian MacKaye. These are people who have made their own labels.

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#19. The more I keep myself occupied and jump from thing to thing, the more I think it enriches both.

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#20. I still feel lucky whenever I hear a director say, "Action!" Because then I think, "Whoa, I'm really in the movies. This is a real thing happening." I've never not been enthralled by that. I still love it. I still love hearing it, and I feel really lucky all the time.

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#21. There are bands that I am friends with, who will invite me up on stage. Like Les Savy Fav, who have had me on stage, and I have played on their record. There are a couple of bands like that. Yo La Tango has invited me to play with them.

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#22. I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was.

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#23. Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.

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#24. Sometimes 'Portlandia' can be pretty traditional. But the stuff I've always loved on 'SNL' has always been the weirdest stuff I've done. The stuff that went on at 10 to 1 in the morning.

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#25. I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.

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#26. I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels - he pays attention to every detail.

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#27. I lived in Chicago, but the music I was inspired by was from D. C.

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#28. I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.

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#29. I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

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#30. Everyone goes through all kinds of relationship situations. I'm lucky that I get to be on two comedy shows [during divorce].

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#31. I don't think there's an archetype for the Justin Bieber fan. A Bieber fan just looks like an American. You wouldn't even need a costume to try and resemble one.

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#32. Portland is where young people go to retire.

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#33. Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

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#34. I thrive most when I have to juggle things.

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#35. There's something really easy and just somehow un-crowded about the Portland airport. Every time I go there I'm like, 'Why is this so easy and sweet?'

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#36. Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.

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#37. I started comedy in like 1998.

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#38. I'm drawn to punk. I'm drawn to samba a bit. I don't think there's a type of music I'm not drawn to. Lykke Li I really like. Holy Sons I still can't get enough of.

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#39. There's something that I can't describe about the city [Portland] that I really love - just physically - how it feels to walk around there, and have coffee there. Also, the way that it's a little overcast sometimes. Something about Portland just really resonated with me.

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#40. I'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of.

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#41. When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh ... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.

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#42. I want it all ... fast. I want to be married, I want to live together ... and then somewhere around a year or two years, I get freaked out. I freak out emotionally and then I actually feel like 'Oh my God, who's this stranger in my house?'

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#43. I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work ... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.

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#44. I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy.

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#45. In my opinion, there's this new phenomenon where guys used to talk about cars a lot in the past. But, more and more it's becoming them talking about recording studios.

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#46. I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.

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#47. Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.

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#48. I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.

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#49. Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.

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