Gasteyer Quotes

#1. I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.

Ana Gasteyer

#2. I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body.

Ana Gasteyer

#3. I'm married but the special man is my dog, Henry.

Ana Gasteyer

#4. Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible.

Ana Gasteyer

#5. I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

Ana Gasteyer

#6. I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

Ana Gasteyer

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

Kate McKinnon

#8. I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

Ana Gasteyer

#9. Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

Ana Gasteyer

#10. You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

Ana Gasteyer

#11. Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

Ana Gasteyer

#12. There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

Ana Gasteyer

#13. I've always lived in a city.

Ana Gasteyer

#14. I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.

Ana Gasteyer

#15. I actually like character work, so for me, generally speaking, I enjoy it. It's a little bit more of a comfortable suit you put back on. You can explore it and have fun with it and push the limits of it.

Ana Gasteyer

#16. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.

Ana Gasteyer

#17. I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

Ana Gasteyer

#18. I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

Ana Gasteyer

#19. I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.

Ana Gasteyer

#20. I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

Ana Gasteyer

#21. I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have.

Ana Gasteyer

#22. It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

Ana Gasteyer

#23. Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the challenge is always to find a cool and innovative way to do it and, obviously, to not repeat your jokes.

Ana Gasteyer

#24. I live in Brooklyn.

Ana Gasteyer

#25. It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles ...

Ana Gasteyer

#26. I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

Ana Gasteyer

#27. I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

Ana Gasteyer

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

Ana Gasteyer

#29. I always tried not to be too mean, but my problem is that the people I tend to find hilarious don't usually have senses of humor. So interacting with them is a little bit of an awkward engagement, because I can't really make them laugh, on top of which I've been doing an impression of them.

Ana Gasteyer

#30. It's so easy in these cabaret venues to get earnest.

Ana Gasteyer

#31. I've done a ton of theater work and dramatic work, but nobody really knows me that way.

Ana Gasteyer