Words matter. These are the best Michaela Watkins Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My mom is an avid musical theatergoer. My dad would always get a subscription to the Syracuse Stage. I was always exposed to theater. So I went to a theater conservatory at Boston University.
I don’t come from a Hollywood family. I don’t have Hollywood friends. I didn’t have any connections.
I love working so much. For me, working equals happiness.
When I got ‘Trophy Wife’, the first fear is, ‘This could go away;’ the second is, ‘It’s here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.’
‘SNL’ was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I don’t have any regrets.
The wardrobe department isn’t a bunch of elves there to serve you; they’re artists with vision. Honor them.
I say yes to everything if I like the overall thing that’s being put out there. I’ll do anything with David Wain.
My rule of thumb is to always do what’s on the page first. Then you can talk to your director about playing with it. Improv frees me up in a character, but I would be mortified if the writers who agonized over their words assumed I thought my improv was more valuable.
I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible.
A great time in my life was being totally single and actively not dating. Just saying, ‘I’m gonna not be in a relationship. I’m gonna not date.’ That was a super fun, awesome time.
I love comedies, both broad and subtle.
I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.
You know how when you’re alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of crazy? And as soon as people come over, your cat is like someone you’ve never met before? You know, poised. That’s sort of what it’s like working with Jennifer Lopez.
I’d love to do a Marvel movie.
My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.
I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.
Because I do mostly comedy, I’m usually working with friends, and it’s usually a ball.
When you’re casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going to be very well-known names.
As much as I would have loved to look like Jennifer Aniston in ‘Friends,’ that didn’t happen. And I really tried! I hit that gym! I got a flatiron. But it didn’t happen.
It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from ‘SNL.’ I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, ‘I’m the girl who was fired from ‘SNL,’ you’re just that.
As far as celebrity, people don’t stop me on the street and know who I am. It’s more like, ‘Doesn’t she remind you of so-and-so’s ex-girlfriend?’ It’s always somebody’s ex-girlfriend. Somebody ex-girlfriend who’s ‘crazy.’
I loved the movie ‘Dangerous Liasons’ with John Malkovich.
I made a pact with myself when I was 12 that I would only work with people who make me happy. I choose happy.
Rejection and I are old friends.
I’m happy because I was proud of what I did at ‘SNL.’ It’s the only time probably in my life that I didn’t have any regrets. I worked really hard. I played really nice. I threw myself into it. I committed. Beyond that, what else could I have done?
