Top 25 Noel Wells Quotes

I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it’s always been that way because it is a business.

I like to be good. I like being good at things. I wish that was valued instead of me being ‘better’ than another woman who also writes things and makes movies.

I’ve had this problem my whole life where I feel like I’m laughing all the time, and I feel like I understand what makes me laugh. But other people don’t see it. It’s very confusing.

I feel like if I had a spirit animal, it would be Holly Hunter.

Nobody gets into comedy because they feel like they’re cool and funny. If they do, they’re megalomaniacs.

‘S.N.L.’ is the comedy establishment. Of course you want to go through that, because you want that stamp of approval. But it has its own identity, and our voices didn’t mesh for whatever reason – or they decided we didn’t belong.

‘S.N.L.’ has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It’s become this big machine. I don’t want to be plugged into a machine.

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.

I’m one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists.

The movies and comedy that I love the most, even if there are men starring in them, often the men wrote the parts for themselves.

I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it’s not going to work. It’s not going to be romantic, and it’s probably going to be one-sided.

I feel like I can do any kind of acting. It’s hard to convince other people of that. I feel very confident that most any role, I would be able to do it. I don’t have a lot of insecurities around acting.

I just think that we’re all humans; we all mess up. It’s okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That’s how evolution happens.

I see so many women thinking other women are their enemies – especially when they don’t have a job or a guy or whatever. It’s like, ‘I don’t have what I want, and she does, so she must be my enemy.’ I find it confusing and not fair and sad.

I went to film school at UT Austin.

As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

As a creative person, you have to keep going. There’s no defined career path. There’s no security.

I’m a progressive person, very liberal. I have this thing in my head where I’m going to change the world, but with comedy.

Just as performers, I think you’d be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.

I remember, when I was a little kid playing with the 25 Legos I had, I thought, ‘If I just had a camera, I could film different setups and make it look like I have way more Legos and tell a story.’ I didn’t get a camera, though, until I basically got an iPhone.

There is so much incredible talent in Hollywood, and it’s crazy to me that we see the same people over and over again in projects.

I think the process of ‘SNL’ is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent sends it in, they watch people’s tapes, and then they invite people to perform at a comedy club in Los Angeles or New York. But I don’t know how much actual scouting they do online.

I’m sure there have been a lot of boys I’ve chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that’s kind of how things happen – sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

Growing up, I felt like it was very dangerous to mess up in any way, both in front of men and in front of other girls. It was like you couldn’t make mistakes. So having a female friend who’s like, ‘Get over yourself. You’re driving me crazy!’ – that’s been one of my most important parts of becoming an adult.

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.