Cecily Strong quotes:
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Hillary has her work cut out for her. Her Democratic challengers are a 'Who's Who' of 'who's that?' Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee, Silas Phelps, Peter Wilks... now those last two were characters from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You didn't even notice, did you?
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I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.
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I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just don't take them very often.
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People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.
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I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?
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My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.
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I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.
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I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite.
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I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.
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The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.
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I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.
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I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just dont take them very often.
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I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.
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I'm not high maintenance, and I'm not into a highly manicured man. I don't want to see a lot of hair product.
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When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.
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What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.
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I'm generally happier and more easy going when it's warm outside.
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Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.
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My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.
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There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.
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You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.
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I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.
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Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.
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Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.
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It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.
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There have been some terrible winters in Chicago, where it feels like I'm literally being punched in the face, and everyone walks around looking stunned like they've just witnessed a murder.
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Theres so much more bad information than good information out there - everybodys got something to say and its usually wrong.
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I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.
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I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.
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Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.
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Feels right to have a woman follow President Obama, doesn't it?
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I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.