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
I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.
When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.
Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.
Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.
I wish I had a lot of tattoos.
Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.
When you're a woman in your thirties, and maybe you don't really know what you want to do with your life, but it seems like everyone else does, and your best friend gets married, and it forces you to look at yourself. I don't know if I described that in a very funny way.
At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.
I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. Which I am not recommending teenagers do if they read this.
The good thing about 'SNL' is that it's the same people every week that you're working with, and we've all become so close and tight because we've worked together so long and so closely together.
I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.
Don't become something just because someone else wants you to or because it's easy; you won't be happy. You have to do what you really, really, really, really want to do, even if it scares the s-t out of you.
With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.
When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.