Quotes from Seth Meyers

My 'SNL' days of working through the night have come and gone.

My parents introduced me to 'SNL,' Monty Python, and Richard Pryor probably way earlier than they had any right to.

It's nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that 'SNL' is what my skill set is best designed for.

I was very much aiming to go into movies eventually, like a lot of 'SNL' people. But, soon after I arrived, all these really good actors started, like Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg, and I thought, 'If I were casting a movie, I would put all of them in it over me.'

In 2004 I had the fortune - or the misfortune - of playing John Kerry. It was hard because I think the best impressions exaggerate someone's most well-known quality. And exaggerating gravitas is very hard to pull off.

People say, 'Oh, you're doing the job of journalists.' I think it's very important to note that we can't do our job without journalists. Journalists can do their job without late-night comedians. They'd be just fine without us. But we, of course, use their work every day to build our pieces.

The nice thing about anger is that, as an emotion, it's strong enough to unplug me from the comedian's mind for a minute and just be a frustrated member of the citizenry.

I started in high school, and in college, I studied radio, TV, and film. The plan was to be a filmmaker, and it was always comedy.

The hands are the feet of the arms.

I want people to know my political point of view. There's an appetite for that, almost an expectation. I also want to make people laugh, but I wouldn't want to do it at the expense of my point of view.

It's very hard to get inside Donald Trump's brain, and I don't want to try.

I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.