Bill Hader
Bill Hader
William Thomas "Bill" Hader Jr. is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, for which he has received three Emmy nominations, South Park, and his parody series Documentary Now!...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth7 June 1978
CityTulsa, OK
CountryUnited States of America
kids embarrassed
My kids, they're always embarrassed when my voice shows up in something.
yeah improvising
Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.
mistake stupid thinking
No one knows anything. You're going to make mistakes and you're going to do things that people think are stupid. You can't sit there and go, "I never want to make a mistake."
nice moving coffee
I move out here, and next thing I know I'm 25, and the only thing I've heard is, 'Can you get a coffee, can you hurry up with the thing, blah blah blah.' It was nice doing something and hearing someone go, 'Hey, you're good at this.'
actual definitely great group heard saying
In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
anderson filmmaker moved paul thomas
I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.
good liked trains
I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie.
good
David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.
Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.
cast full meeting michaels
At the beginning of each week at 'Saturday Night Live,' we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host.
playing
When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.
people work
When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.
nature
The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.
One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.