Quotes from Casey Wilson

Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.

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

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Debra Winger blows me away, always.

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

Everything related to 'SNL,' that was very sudden - from the time I found out I was joining the cast to the time I could read on a blog that someone watching the show thinks I'm fat, that was about 30 days. That blog part, that could've moved a little more slowly. But hey - it's all material, right?

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.

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.

I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.

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

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

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.

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

I actually do enjoy the Kardashians' show, and I know that other people do enjoy it, but at the same time, they want to make fun of it. Like, I know that girls are watching that show - I'm just the only one courageous enough to say it. Other people are courageous in acts of war, but I'm courageous in my love for the Kardashians.

I can never turn my creativity off.

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.

I don't love to fail.

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

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.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

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.

Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.