Cecily Strong I loved ‘SNL’ growing up, and I would trick my babysitter into letting me stay up to watch it. My family would rent Marx brothers’ movies and Monty Python episodes, and we watched ‘In Living Color’, ‘The State’, and ‘Strangers with Candy’. – Cecily Strong Babysitter Quotes Brothers Quotes Candy Quotes Color Quotes Episodes Quotes Family Quotes Growing Quotes Letting Quotes Living Quotes Loved Quotes Marx Quotes Monty Quotes Movies Quotes Python Quotes Rent Quotes Snl Quotes Stay Quotes Strangers Quotes Trick Quotes Watch Quotes Watched Quotes I got my degree in acting and theater, and then I had a teacher who told me to take a class with The Groundlings. And for a second, I thought, ‘Well, I don’t know about that. I’m a serious actress.’ And then I did, and I loved it, and I said, ‘Ah, well, I guess this is what I’m going to do now.’ I think women have always been funny. But when Tina Fey became head writer at ‘Saturday Night Live,’ the culture shifted, and women gained a bigger voice in comedy. It’s not as if Hollywood producers are feminists. It’s more that Hollywood said, ”Bridesmaids’ made us so much money, all we want now is funny women.’
Saswata Chatterjee I look like a typical Bengali. Whereas the qualities people were used to seeing in heroes were dance and action, which aren’t really Bengali characteristics. – Saswata Chatterjee
Jo Cox I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam. – Jo Cox
Jonathan Demme At certain points, I was afraid there was something – a missing chink of skill – that was going to prevent me from having a movie that was financially successful. That frightened me. – Jonathan Demme
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