Cecily Strong Quotes

“I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.”

— Cecily Strong

“I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just don't take them very often.”

— Cecily Strong

“I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.”

— Cecily Strong

“Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.”

— Cecily Strong

“I'm not high maintenance, and I'm not into a highly manicured man. I don't want to see a lot of hair product.”

— Cecily Strong

“People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.”

— Cecily Strong

“You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.”

— Cecily Strong

“I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.”

— Cecily Strong

I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite.

— Cecily Strong

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

— Cecily Strong

“I love people who aren't embarrassed. I'm always embarrassed, so it's always astonishing to me when people aren't like that.”

— Cecily Strong

“I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?”

— Cecily Strong

My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.

— Cecily Strong

“I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.”

— Cecily Strong

I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so my Twitter's not really a jokey thing.

— Cecily Strong

“I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.”

— Cecily Strong

“I'm generally happier and more easy going when it's warm outside.”

— Cecily Strong

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

— Cecily Strong

“There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.”

— Cecily Strong

“When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.”

— Cecily Strong

“There have been some terrible winters in Chicago, where it feels like I'm literally being punched in the face, and everyone walks around looking stunned like they've just witnessed a murder.”

— Cecily Strong

“The founders of Snapchat last year turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook and a $4 billion offer from Google. It was a surprising show of integrity from the guys who invented the app that lets you look at pictures of boobs for five seconds.”

— Cecily Strong

“Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.”

— Cecily Strong

“Hillary has her work cut out for her. Her Democratic challengers are a 'Who's Who' of 'who's that?' Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee, Silas Phelps, Peter Wilks ... now those last two were characters from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You didn't even notice, did you?”

— Cecily Strong

I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.

— Cecily Strong

“Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.”

— Cecily Strong

“I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.”

— Cecily Strong

“Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.”

— Cecily Strong

“What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.”

— Cecily Strong

“Feels right to have a woman follow President Obama, doesn't it?”

— Cecily Strong

“I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.”

— Cecily Strong