For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.

Kate McKinnon

You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.

Kate McKinnon

Work Life Great

I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.

Kate McKinnon

Very T Son

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

Kate McKinnon

Funny Your You

I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

Kate McKinnon

Work Love Leadership

I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

Kate McKinnon

Relationship Pet Home

I pride myself on being tragically uncool.

Kate McKinnon

Cool UN Tragic

I hate the feeling of having hair on my neck.

Kate McKinnon

T Neck He

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

Kate McKinnon

Peace Life Alone

If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.

Kate McKinnon

Art Your You

A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

Kate McKinnon

Men Good Tap

I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

Kate McKinnon

Good Ways Way

I find donating stuff to be the biggest hassle.

Kate McKinnon

Tin T Stuff

I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

Kate McKinnon

Work Good Worst

I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

Kate McKinnon

Love Wit Weeds

I love the produce section at the grocery store.

Kate McKinnon

Love T Store

It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.

Kate McKinnon

Wit UN Ultimate

I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.

Kate McKinnon

Time Success Yourself

If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

Kate McKinnon

Car Art Would

I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

Kate McKinnon

War Yourself Yours

I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.

Kate McKinnon

Music History Ways

I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.

Kate McKinnon

To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.

Kate McKinnon

For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.

Kate McKinnon

I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.

Kate McKinnon

I just like playing unique characters that I love.

Kate McKinnon

Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

Kate McKinnon

What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.

Kate McKinnon

I feel like science and art are cousins.

Kate McKinnon

I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.

Kate McKinnon

The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

Kate McKinnon

My most frequent collaborators at S.N.L. are the incredibly gifted writers Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider!

Kate McKinnon

I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.

Kate McKinnon

For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.

Kate McKinnon

When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'

Kate McKinnon

It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.

Kate McKinnon

There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

Kate McKinnon

I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

Kate McKinnon

I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.

Kate McKinnon

I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

Kate McKinnon

I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.

Kate McKinnon

I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.

Kate McKinnon

I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.

Kate McKinnon

I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

Kate McKinnon

My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

Kate McKinnon

My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.

Kate McKinnon

My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

Kate McKinnon

Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.

Kate McKinnon

If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

Kate McKinnon

Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.

Kate McKinnon

I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.

Kate McKinnon