Top 45 Casey Wilson Quotes

There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.

With agents, I’ve learned to bring them into the process when I feel confident. You’re the only one that can really know what’s right for your career. You’re on a wing and a prayer through most of it.

I didn’t have the greatest ride on ‘SNL,’ but I always felt support from gay fans, which made me feel accepted within a place I didn’t feel totally accepted.

If you can have a laugh with someone, you’re then in each other’s world.

So many shows don’t have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.

Not everyone is married at 25 and taken care of.

Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph – when they speak, everyone listens. Because they’re freaking hilarious.

Posturing is funny to me.

Frankly, ‘Bride Wars’ got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love.

What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It’s sweet and sad – and, to me, hilarious.

Jake Johnson is one of my oldest friends.

The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.

I’ve always been very animated.

If you’re going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven’t even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can’t be afraid to fail.

I’ve started meditating, but I do have a quick temper.

I can never turn my creativity off.

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, ‘Oh, okay, babe,’ and I see it in scripts all the time.

Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.

It’s certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.

I’m in therapy, and I think everyone should be.

Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I’ve always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.

I don’t love to fail.

Something that’s good in the mini-culture of ‘Happy Endings’ is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what’s already great material – and also, we’re like, ‘Who is even watching this? Let’s just go for it.’

I think the key to working with my husband is that collaboration in comedy is best.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

I love the idea of someone getting knocked down repeatedly, but they still believe in love.

When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.

Even before I got on ‘SNL’ I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don’t mean to sound arrogant – I just thought I would be best suited to the form.

I’ll take discrimination if it’s in my favor!

I think there’s almost nothing that I won’t, sadly, do for a laugh. It’s a problem, actually.

I’m the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.

My parents are both super funny, and I always knew I wanted to be on ‘SNL.’ My mom and I would watch it a lot.

On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ you wear so many hats there. You’re the prop person, the actor, you’re everything.

I want to see a ton more comedy for women.

I love Nene Leakes, of course.

You can’t always tell if someone’s gay over Twitter, but when he’s talking to you about ‘Real Housewives,’ it’s probably OK to assume.

I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.

I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.

Kenya Moore is everything to me. She’s everything.

I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.

You only feel as good as your last sketch.

All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.

When you’re on a road trip, anything goes.

Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can’t tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you’re really up to. I’m just seeing the performance of all the work you’re doing and the look you’re giving; it’s very hard to get to the center. It’s very hard to see what’s what.