Quotes from Kristen Wiig

I don't always just want to do the same thing.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.

My friends back home are very supportive.

People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.

A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.

I wish I had a lot of tattoos.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

I just want to try and be in projects that are exciting to me.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I would never wear fur.

Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

I always say I want to look haunted.