Quotes from Kate McKinnon

I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.

Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.

I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.

I find donating stuff to be the biggest hassle.

Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.

I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.

I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

I love to just get in the booth. Put some tracks down. I'm basically Rihanna.

My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.

If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.

I hope to be on 'SNL' as long as they'll let me.

Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.

A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.