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Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show. -- Adam Sandler
Satire is what closes on Saturday night. -- George S. Kaufman
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. -- Woody Allen
If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night. -- Kathy Griffin
And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams. -- Ty Burrell
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel. -- Audrey Hepburn
I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close. -- Fred Armisen
I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted. -- Ina Garten
I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. -- Kevin Richardson
Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool. -- Tina Fey
For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story. -- Gene Siskel
When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards. -- Tina Fey
I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'. -- Fred Armisen
Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions. -- Henry Rollins
I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner. -- Emma Stone
Saturday Night Live' was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting. -- Howard Shore
I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place. -- Brad Pitt
I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water. -- Will Ferrell
Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way. -- Will Ferrell
I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest. -- Norm MacDonald
I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' -- Jimmy Fallon
Satire is what closes Saturday night. -- Juvenal
Different cocktails for different Saturday nights. -- Drew Barrymore
It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning. -- Jimmy Buffett
Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans. -- Mike Birbiglia
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night -- Gloria Steinem
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. -- Ken Dodd
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. -- Ogden Nash
We have to get families back in the game, get back where Saturday night, everything stops. A case of beer comes out and a bottle of rye and anyone who comes to the house, they better want to watch hockey. -- Bobby Hull
We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place. -- Gavin MacLeod
American sex is generally straight. It happens at 11 o'clock Saturday night. In the rural areas, it happens at nine and it happens pretty fast. Got to get up the next morning, especially if there're kids. Can't make noise, either, wake the kids. -- Mel Brooks
We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw. -- Brian Clough
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book. -- Robert Redford
I can tell you there is no finer stadium to play in. The traditions that they place in that stadium like when they announce that it's Saturday night in Death Valley, when the band plays, when that crowd stands and cheers for the Tigers, there is no place like it in America. -- Les Miles
Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion. -- Anthony Bourdain
I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.' -- Willard Scott
Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny. -- Tracy Morgan
Saturday Night Live' was the joy of my life. -- Tracy Morgan
The '80s were all about 'Saturday Night's Main Event.' -- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
'Saturday Night Live' is live television. Nothing can compare to that. -- Tracy Morgan
I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten. -- Olivia Wilde
The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian. -- Jamie Farr
When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work. -- Molly Shannon
You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live. -- Raphael Saadiq
I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.' -- Tracy Morgan
If it weren't for The Groundlings, I would never be on Saturday Night Live. -- Chris Kattan
Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live. -- Maya Rudolph
It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim. -- Christina Aguilera
With Saturday Night Live you're looking for any hook, any way to stay on the show. -- David Spade
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live. -- Max Brooks
I took my portrait that Kaufman did of me home from the Saturday Night Live TV set. -- Eddie Murphy
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.' -- Max Brooks
If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned. -- Tracy Morgan
Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.' -- Tracy Morgan
I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything. -- Victoria Jackson
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Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me. -- Laurieann Gibson
'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me. -- Laurieann Gibson
I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. -- Fred Armisen
There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco. -- Gene Kelly
I remember Steve Kaufman as the artist on Saturday Night Live doing the Pop Art portraits for the show. -- Joe Piscopo
By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live. -- Sarah Silverman
My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path. -- Nicole Ari Parker
Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years. -- Dana Carvey
There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I'm in a 'Saturday Night Live' skit. -- Chris Pine
I'm more of a comedian. I wouldn't mind being on SNL (Saturday Night Live). I think that would be cool. -- Cheyenne Kimball
I had a great time working on 'Saturday Night Live.' It was one of the important times in my life. -- Tracy Morgan
SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal. -- Joe Flaherty
Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good. -- Jamie Farr
Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.' -- Christian Louboutin
When a show has been on for so long, you lose fans, you gain fans. I remember this from 'Saturday Night Live.' -- Kevin Nealon
We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career. -- John Travolta
My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with. -- Michael Chabon
Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live -- Geraldo Rivera
Saturday Night Live is hitting me on a regular basis again. This is my fourth decade that I've been lampooned on Saturday Night Live. -- Geraldo Rivera
At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host. -- Bill Hader
I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings. -- Carl Icahn
Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too. -- Jill Scott
'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too. -- Jill Scott
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We know that the president [Donald Trump] watches "Saturday Night Live" because he tweets about it. He doesn't like it, but he keeps watching it. -- Peter Sagal
[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career. -- Rob Lowe
The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin. -- Ike Barinholtz
The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live. -- Phil Hartman
I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week. -- Mike Myers
When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character. -- Ashton Kutcher
From the time I was about 7 until I was about 13 or 14, I looked like I was Pat from 'Saturday Night Live.' I'm not exaggerating, remotely. -- Kirsten Vangsness
I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.' -- Seth Rogen
When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out. -- Bill Hader
Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years. -- John Travolta
When I got to 'Saturday Night Live,' it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out. -- Bill Hader
The most nerve-wracking experience is an oral presentation in class. And right under that would be doing 'Saturday Night Live' or 'David Letterman.' One of those shows. -- Rivers Cuomo
Saturday Night Live was a show that I never thought I would be on, because I didn't do sketch comedy and I didn't do impressions. I was a stand-up. -- Kevin Nealon
Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified. -- George Vecsey
My career has been in a weird kind of like low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on "Saturday Night Live" where all my friends did. -- Jim Carrey
I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer. -- Richard LaGravenese
I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'. -- Jessica Williams
We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened. -- David Wain
I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it. -- Lindsey Vonn
If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it. -- Max Brooks
But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments. -- Kevin Richardson
The things I did on Saturday Night Live are going to stay as Saturday Night Live. You've never seen Eddie Murphy do a Gumby movie. There's a lot more new material inside of me. -- Tracy Morgan
I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident. -- Andy Samberg
I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.' -- Rashida Jones
I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks to Schoolly D's "Saturday Night." I would give anything for a video of that. -- Axel Alonso
I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper. -- Andy Samberg
I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world. -- Dana Carvey
I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.' -- Tina Fey
There was this real fear in doing Square Pegs after getting such a fast ride to glory on Saturday Night Live. I was afraid that the word would be peaks early, fails to live up to promise. -- Anne Beatts
Saturday Night Live was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting. -- Howard Shore
I actually love 'Saturday Night Live,' like a sports fan watches their favorite team to see how they're doing. I know the players and the writers, I've known several people on that show for a number of years. -- Mike Birbiglia
I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together with tight writing and performances. Hollywood seems to have forgotten how to do this. -- Joyce DeWitt
I came away from 'Saturday Night Live' feeling very well represented. I felt, and I still feel like, they let me do so much stuff that I wanted to do. Stuff that I almost didn't even know what it was. -- Fred Armisen
It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it. -- Joan Cusack
I want to win a Grammy. I want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. I want to be a musical guest on 'Saturday Night Live.' And I want to play arenas and have tons of people watching me. -- Cheyenne Kimball
Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren't I funny?' - that just wasn't my instinct. -- Chris Parnell
When I graduated from college, I moved to New York and started doing improv because I read all about the early 'Saturday Night Live' guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise, so I wanted to get immediately into that. -- Andy Daly

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