Will Forte
I can let people take advantage of me at times.
My life is littered with bad decisions.
I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.
I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.
I'm not very good at impersonations.
I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.
You can do anything to my food and I'll still eat it.
It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.
It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'
I don't really have much of a skin care routine. I take a shower every day, but I don't wash my face before I go to bed or anything. I'll try every once in a while to put some moisturizer on my face. In fact, I would probably have better skin if I was religious about it, but I'm not.
I've always loved burritos, and I've always loved breakfast, and when I learned that some smart person had combined the two, it was a real sun-peeking-through-the-clouds moment.
Mine's the fun amount of OCD. The party amount! Just enough to give you a little teeny bit of character, but you can still leave the house.
I like to keep my personal life private. I did read one of those stories, and it made it seem like just because I don't go out and I'm not the subject of tabloid photography, I've never had a relationship in my life, like if a relationship isn't documented by a picture, it doesn't exist. I don't want to talk about it.
I don't like the pressure to try to tell the best jokes. I'm not good at jokes.
I just love the people I work with so much, you know. It's an embarrassment of riches to get to work with Kristen Schaal and Mel Rodriguez and Mary Steenburgen and Boris Kodjoe and Cleopatra Coleman and January Jones, but then to get to bring Jason Sudeikis into the mix, you know, we're like brothers from all that time we spent together.
I don't do a lot of strategizing, career-wise. I was approached by Chris and Phil, the guys who did 'The Lego Movie.' They gave me my first job on 'Clone High.' We've been friends forever, and they asked me if I wanted to write something with them.
Certainly there were so many different people I had as heroes growing up. Steve Martin is always my number one. David Letterman's show, that was important. And 'Saturday Night Live,' obviously.
I loved 'The Jerk.' That was my favorite movie.
There are all kinds of people who I watch and marvel at. Just so many. I'll watch something and go, 'Could I ever have done that?'
It's funny: the older I get, the more I can pick out when people are acting.
You're certainly aware of your strengths and limitations, but I'd say I probably err on the side of trying to go too far and then get disappointed with myself and how it turns out.
The Emmys are in good hands with Andy Samberg. Disgusting, dirty hands.
I never knew how much you had to do to promote a movie, and I can't imagine what it would be like if you didn't like the movie you were promoting.
Anybody can have any opinion they want to, as long as it's an informed opinion.
I think there are people that don't think 'SNL' should make movies because sketches don't translate. Sometimes they don't, but sometimes they do.
'Wayne's World' is one of the best movies of all time.
I'm not used to people watching the stuff that I do.
I've always been weird, and into weird stuff that has a hard time finding mainstream success.
I try to be a good person - I don't always succeed, but that's what I'm shooting for.
I'm an optimist, and I'll stay in situations for much longer than I should, just thinking that they'll work themselves out.
Right before 'Nebraska,' I went to Ireland to do this little movie called 'Run & Jump.' It was so far away from home, I felt a real safety to explore a different kind of role. I loved how it turned out.
Obviously, if you get a chance to be in Alexander Payne's movie, you're going to go for it, or you'd be a crazy person.
Definitely, I did not, after 'SNL,' say, 'OK, first I'll go be in Alexander Payne's movie.' I thought I might go back to writing, to be honest.
I feel like I've always been a hard worker - working too much on things that I don't need to work on. Nothing's ever going to be perfect, but I still feel like there's this attainable perfection, which doesn't exist.
When you make something that you're really proud of, and it doesn't do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn't do well.
I cannot pull off a mustache. It's like threading a needle, because most of the time, I'll look like a complete idiot.
My track record suggests that I'm not quite a mainstream darling, that's for sure. I don't want to only cater to a small audience, but it's just kind of worked out that way.
The older I get, the more grays are popping out. They're definitely all over my beard.
I love mustaches with all my heart. There's just something about sketch comedy and mustaches.
When I graduated from college, I thought I was losing my hair. And I started looking into hair transplants. I was talking to my mom. My mom said, 'You're crazy. You have so much hair.' It was a real lesson in your mind playing tricks on you. You can make your mind think anything is happening.
Bruce [Dern] and I are in this car just for days and days, just talking about life and I could listen to his stories forever.Collection: Talking
I love everybody I work with. It's really like a family. I can't imagine leaving. It's weird. I know at some point I'll have to leave, but I don't really have any plan for that yet. Anytime you're leaving, it's going to be a crapshoot. You hope you have something to do afterward, but there's no guarantee.Collection: Leaving
I'm a very bad impersonator so I can't even remember if I've ever done a sports person. I mean, I think I was Bruce Jenner once but I don't think I said anything in the sketch. I was just sitting there in a like a bronze tracksuit. No dialogue. They don't trust me with dialogue.Collection: Sports
There's really no wrong way to use a margarita pool.Collection: Use
When I was a kid watching "The Blues Brothers," I could not think of a better thing than watching 300 cop cars crash into each other.Collection: Brother
The kinds of scenes I like most are the ones where you just bury yourself in there. So I wouldn't say that's the only way to be funny, but that's my favorite way to play stuff, to try to put myself in a situation where that kind of acting is necessary.Collection: Trying
I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.Collection: Writing
When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.Collection: People
We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.Collection: Stupid
I am a huge sports fan and spend a lot of my time away from work watching sports, going to sporting events, stuff like that. So it is a big thrill to see these people who I have so much respect for and to find out that they're all really fun, super-nice people. It's very exciting.Collection: Sports