Top 18 Noel Wells Quotes

I think art maybe has just become very consumer-oriented, and maybe it’s always been that way because it is a business.

I auditioned for ‘S.N.L.’ two years before I got on the show. And I remember the first time thinking, ‘I know for sure I’m not going to get this.’ But I had this feeling that I would be back.

‘S.N.L.’ has become what it was always trying to make fun of. It’s become this big machine. I don’t want to be plugged into a machine.

I’m a progressive person, very liberal. I have this thing in my head where I’m going to change the world, but with comedy.

I want to collaborate with people and be a part of a creative community.

I’ve had this problem my whole life where I feel like I’m laughing all the time, and I feel like I understand what makes me laugh. But other people don’t see it. It’s very confusing.

Just as performers, I think you‘d be an idiot not to utilize YouTube.

As a creative person, you have to keep going. There’s no defined career path. There’s no security.

I’ve always wanted to be a director; it’s just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music videos and all the shots and setups to edit it all together. If I interact with a person, I’m seeing a whole scene come to life.

I just think that we’re all humans; we all mess up. It’s okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That’s how evolution happens.

‘S.N.L.’ is the comedy establishment. Of course you want to go through that, because you want that stamp of approval. But it has its own identity, and our voices didn’t mesh for whatever reason – or they decided we didn’t belong.

The movies and comedy that I love the most, even if there are men starring in them, often the men wrote the parts for themselves.

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor.

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.

I don’t necessarily want to be famous.

I think the process of ‘SNL‘ is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent sends it in, they watch people’s tapes, and then they invite people to perform at a comedy club in Los Angeles or New York. But I don’t know how much actual scouting they do online.

Growing up, I felt like it was very dangerous to mess up in any way, both in front of men and in front of other girls. It was like you couldn’t make mistakes. So having a female friend who‘s like, ‘Get over yourself. You’re driving me crazy!’ – that’s been one of my most important parts of becoming an adult.

I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it’s not going to work. It’s not going to be romantic, and it’s probably going to be one-sided.