Kristen Wiig
Kristen Wiig
Kristen Carroll Wiig is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She is known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, and such films as Knocked Up, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Paul and Bridesmaids, Girl Most Likely, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the animated Despicable Me film series, The Skeleton Twins, The Martianand Ghostbusters...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth22 August 1973
CityCanandaigua, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Kristen Wiig quotes about
I would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about.
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.
I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.
The public doesn't want to hear people complaining about having their picture taken.
People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.
It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.
If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.
If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.
I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.
With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.
For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It's so ridiculous to me.
There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male,' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.
I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.
I'm a vegetarian; I eat a lot of tofu and soy.