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Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don’t work.

Bill Hader

Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright – getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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Enough People Television
I move out here, and next thing I know I’m 25, and the only thing I’ve heard is, ‘Can you get a coffee, can you hurry up with the thing, blah blah blah.’
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Coffee Moving Nice
I would say the biggest difference is that you’re just in a studio by yourself when you’re making an animated movie. You don’t have anybody to play off of.
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Animated Differences Play
I can’t cook. I can barely make a bowl of cereal.
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Bowls Cereal Cooks
If a guy doesn’t like a funny girl, something is wrong with him.
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Funny Girl Guy Life
I’m never the romantic lead. I’m the guy walking in on the romantic lead, going, “Oh sorry! I’ll leave you guys alone.”
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Guy Sorry Walking
Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn’t much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did.
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Grow Up Sports
Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you’re with somebody.
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Improvising Yeah
I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.
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Character Enjoy Italian Names
All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.
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Driving Emotion Stories
Richard Grieco once asked for a bunch of M&M’s
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Asked Bunch People
I have nothing, I have no props.’ And that was Andy Samberg. And Andy Samberg said he was looking at me going, ‘Oh, that guy has no props. He doesn’t need props.’ And that was the first time we met, was in that elevator.
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Country Look Need Nothing People Props
No one knows anything. You’re going to make mistakes and you’re going to do things that people think are stupid. You can’t sit there and go, “I never want to make a mistake.”
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Mistake Stupid Thinking
I remember getting in the elevator for my audition and there was a guy next to me who had a backpack full of props and wigs and things, and I went, ‘Oh, my God, that guy is so prepared,
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Elevator Guy Needs Wigs
I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they’d want me to be in them.
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Actor Want Writing
It was nice doing something and hearing someone go, ‘Hey, you’re good at this.’
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Good Guy Hearing Something

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don’t work.

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