Quotes About Saturday Night

#1. I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show.

Joe Piscopo

#2. The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.

Phil Hartman

#3. Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Woody Allen

#4. Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night.

Candice Bergen

#5. You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,' Brian De Palma, handsome young god ... he, in reality, is a very silly man. And I mean that in a good way. He'll walk around the set talking in little weird voices, making people laugh.

Eric Stoltz

#6. I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.

Brad Pitt

#7. Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.

Douglas Adams

#8. With the Roxbury guys (on 'Saturday Night Live'), I think the breaking point was when Stallone came on and wanted to do the sketch just because. And we're, like, 'Well, now we've got to create a story, so, what, are we bopping our heads with Rocky? What are we doing?'

Chris Kattan

#9. Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.

Clive Sinclair

#10. The City went to me in a LANDSLIDE, and you know why? Because all it wants is decent television, a bit of spare change for booze, and a blowjob every Saturday night.

Warren Ellis

#11. A long, slow kiss. With mouths open. Teeth knocking. Tongues tangling. The kind my brother Marsh used to call a Saturday Night Special.

Merline Lovelace

#12. He was addled with April. He was dizzy with Spring. He was as drunk as Lem Forrester on a Saturday night.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#13. Computer business are like fruit market on a Saturday night. If you don't sell it at five o'clock, the price is down tomorrow because the fruit's no good the next day. You'd better sell it now.

Brian Bagnall

#14. John Travolta, who said, My Saturday night fever was nothing compared to my Sunday morning rash. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#15. I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

John Travolta

#16. Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.

Will Ferrell

#17. I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.

Andy Samberg

#18. When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.

Molly Shannon

#19. I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.

Woody Allen

#20. I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.

Jenny Slate

#21. Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

Muddy Waters

#22. I just can't muster up enough pride for a town whose most cosmopolitan area is the Taco Bell car park on a saturday night

Chris Colfer

#23. I want a Sunday kind of love
A love to last past Saturday night
And I'd like to know it's more than love at first sight

Etta James

#24. I love a glass of champagne. It can make even the most average Monday seem like a Saturday night. I always say there's happiness in every bubble!

Cat Deeley

#25. I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

Fisher Stevens

#26. You know who's upset now with ISIS? Al Qaeda. It's because ISIS is getting more attention than Al Qaeda. So now, Saturday night will be Ayman al-Zawahiri bobblehead night.

David Letterman

#27. Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation ... about where you fit in society.

David Bowie

#28. It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.

Jeremy Lin

#29. I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.

Anna Maxwell Martin

#30. The films of Saturday Night Fever and Grease were all the rage and I'll admit, I went to see Grease at the local ABC Cinema with a few of my mates. You'd be surprised at how many so-called 'hard' lads that would be stood in the queue waiting to see Grease.

Stephen Richards

#31. I want to win a Grammy. I want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. I want to be a musical guest on 'Saturday Night Live.' And I want to play arenas and have tons of people watching me.

Cheyenne Kimball

#32. I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.

Victoria Jackson

#33. The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

Ken Dodd

#34. I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.

Joseph Mawle

#35. In Jack's view, you were obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning.

Lisa Kleypas

#36. I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there.

James Ellroy

#37. A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#38. He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. Otherwise, you'd be putting the preacher out of business.

Lisa Kleypas

#39. We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.

Brian Clough

#40. 'Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren't I funny?' - that just wasn't my instinct.

Chris Parnell

#41. We went to see him later (on Saturday night) and he was sitting on his hospital bed, getting pelters from my missus for still being in his dirty kit, absolutely stinking.

Sean Lamont

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

Joe Flaherty

#43. It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it.

Joan Cusack

#44. When asked out, I am hesitant, my glance straying to the beeefy, 400-page mystery thriller lounging seductively on the nightstand next to my bed, with come hither eyes that promise an exciting evening of one climax after another. Never had a chance. Staying in Saturday night.

Ava Zavora

#45. Yes, it is the Big Easy, home of the shortest hangover on the planet, where libation can greet you on Monday morning with the same smile as it did on Saturday night.

Matthew McConaughey

#46. With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show.

David Spade

#47. On a pure entertainment level, if I'm going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it's going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide!

Jerrod Carmichael

#48. Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

George S. Kaufman

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

Tracy Morgan

#50. Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

Aaron Sorkin

#51. On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything.

Casey Wilson

#52. I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

Ina Garten

#53. It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

Tom Waits

#54. I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

Will Ferrell

#55. I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Taylor Swift

#56. I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.

Mindy Kaling

#57. Chris [Evans] sent us a text that The Avengers assemble at such and such bar at 9 on Saturday night. That was a good group effort.

Chris Hemsworth

#58. They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.

Michael York

#59. Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.

Beano Cook

#60. Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have plans.

Mike Birbiglia

#61. People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

David E. Kelley

#62. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man's true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep's Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

Franz Kafka

#63. It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

Harold B. Lee

#64. Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.

Tina Fey

#65. My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Michael Chabon

#66. Did Ida never look for him?" Dieter asks.
"She didn't believe in spirits."
"And what became of Henry?"
"Oh. From time to time you can still hear him calling. My father heard his voice himself."
"Every Saturday night when he came home drunk," Frieda says.

Stefan Kiesbye

#67. 3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#68. It's more important to look good than to feel good.
Billy Crystal on Saturday Night Live

Billy Crystal

#69. There's a big, wet, knuckle-dragger in your kitchen with a gun aimed at my head." "Sounds like my idea of a Saturday night," Liv said.

Mercy Celeste

#70. Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week.

Sammy Cahn

#71. As Jack Handey advised in one of his "Deep Thoughts" on Saturday Night Live, before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

Adam M. Grant

#72. I'd love to go out on a Saturday night with my friends and watch a movie, but that happens really like once a year or a couple of times.

Lydia Ko

#73. My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.

Gwyneth Paltrow

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

Bill Hader

#75. Alex: 'Cole, did you not like Saturday night? Because I loved it. It was quite possibly the best sex I've ever had.'
Cole: Damn straight.

Mia London

#76. Saturday night. Buddy Dow, hired skipper of a big lunker owned by an insurance company in Atlanta, had enlisted two recruits and was despairingly in need of more.

John D. MacDonald

#77. When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.

Richard Jenkins

#78. The '80s were all about 'Saturday Night's Main Event.'

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#79. Basically, we used to have a rule at 'Saturday Night Live' that you're not allowed to bring up 'The Simpsons' at the rewrite table, because 'The Simpsons' has done every joke there is. Every week there would be guys going, 'The Simpsons did that.' I go, 'C'mon.' And 'South Park,' too.

Adam McKay

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

Tracy Morgan

#81. Mongrel A mongrel dog is the result of having beer-goggle eyes on a Friday or Saturday night and then waking up the following morning, still unsure who or what you've slept with. Mongrel dogs are the result of random breeding where the parents are of mixed ancestry too. Each one is unique.

Simon Whaley

#82. I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

Emma Stone

#83. He was mirroring my thoughts on Saturday night - this man is good for you, Sara - the same thoughts I'd tried so hard to hold on to.

Christina Lauren

#84. We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.

Illeana Douglas

#85. Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time and on Saturday night.

Ray Davies

#86. 'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

Tracy Morgan

#87. We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people.

Todd English

#88. You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

Raphael Saadiq

#89. 'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen ... all affected me and the generation before me.

Laurieann Gibson

#90. I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

Tracy Morgan

#91. 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.

Fred Armisen

#92. The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Jamie Farr

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

Sarah Silverman

#94. From Monday morning until Saturday night, I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

Charles Dickens

#95. They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

James M. Barrie

#96. I would say what makes me vulnerable is when I allow my mind to spiral. You know? When I start not being in the present moment and I start skipping ahead and picturing my daughter driving on the freeway on a late saturday night.

Lauren Bowles

#97. It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work, I got there...

Jonathan Franzen

#98. You mean to say a family of hot-tempered Mafia people are all cosying up with each other on a Saturday night to sit down and watch a movie about a family of hot-tempered Mafia people...? Is that really what you're telling me?

Catherine Doyle

#99. I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing 'Weekend Update.' Who cares? A lot of people did. When you're reaching that many people, you're not going to have everybody like you.

Kevin Nealon

#100. If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

Max Brooks