Top 50 Kristen Wiig Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there’s nothing more satisfying.”

— Kristen Wiig

2. “I love the rain. It’s my favorite weather.”

— Kristen Wiig

3. “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.”

— Kristen Wiig

4. “If you’re creating anything at all, it’s really dangerous to care about what people think.”

— Kristen Wiig

5. “I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.”

— Kristen Wiig

6. “I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you’re like, ‘What’s wrong with me?’”

— Kristen Wiig

7. “I am a big David Bowie fan.”

— Kristen Wiig

8. “I feel there’s so much pressure, especially for women, to declare what their life’s going to be and what their career is, and are you married yet? Are you single? But you’re 30. And girlfriends are so important. You can have a boyfriend or husband when you’re 30, but you still need your girlfriends.”

— Kristen Wiig

9. “Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.”

— Kristen Wiig

10. “I love kids. All my best friends have kids, and I love, love, love kids.”

— Kristen Wiig

11. “With improv, it’s a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.”

— Kristen Wiig

12. “You have all this stuff going on in your head, like, ‘I can’t believe seven years has gone by, and I’m going to miss all these people.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, by the way, Mick Jagger is to my right, and I just danced a waltz with him.’ So there’s that.”

— Kristen Wiig

13. “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.”

— Kristen Wiig

14. “I wish I had a lot of tattoos.”

— Kristen Wiig

15. “Don’t do something just because someone else wants you to.”

— Kristen Wiig

16. “Even in this day and age, if you’re not married, there are people who are like, ‘Awww! Don’t worry, it’ll happen for you someday.’”

— Kristen Wiig

17. “I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.”

— Kristen Wiig

18. “When you’re on your deathbed, you probably aren’t counting the movies you’ve made.”

— Kristen Wiig

19. “I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.”

— Kristen Wiig

20. “I’d make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.”

— Kristen Wiig

21. “There’s something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.”

— Kristen Wiig

22. “Women do get drunk, they do get sick and they do get food poisoning. It seems to be a bit of a surprise to people that they are seeing it.”

— Kristen Wiig

23. “People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don’t normally do, but I think that’s just a natural thing for artists. It’s like, ‘Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.’”

— Kristen Wiig

24. “I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that’s for sure.”

— Kristen Wiig

25. “There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I’ll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be ‘comedies’ and not ‘female’ or ‘male,’ and everyone gets an equal opportunity.”

— Kristen Wiig

26. “I’m not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.”

— Kristen Wiig

27. “I would put Flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking.”

— Kristen Wiig

28. “It sounds so cheesy, but there’s something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it’s really hard to lie.”

— Kristen Wiig

29. “I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.”

— Kristen Wiig

30. “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.”

— Kristen Wiig

31. “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.”

— Kristen Wiig

32. “Maybe studios don’t want to see women acting in a way that isn’t womanly. Maybe people don’t.”

— Kristen Wiig

33. “I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn’t have to do it.”

— Kristen Wiig

34. “For movies to get greenlit solely based on the success of other movies that have a lot of women in them? It’s so ridiculous to me.”

— Kristen Wiig

35. “I enjoy being characters rather than myself.”

— Kristen Wiig

36. “Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.”

— Kristen Wiig

37. “I would never wear fur.”

— Kristen Wiig

38. “I don’t always just want to do the same thing.”

— Kristen Wiig

39. “I always say I want to look haunted.”

— Kristen Wiig

40. “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.”

— Kristen Wiig

41. “I don’t know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.”

— Kristen Wiig

42. “I really, really want to go to Paris. I’ve never been.”

— Kristen Wiig

43. “It’s a mystery to me what makes people laugh.”

— Kristen Wiig

44. “A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that’s something that people don’t really talk about, but if you’re asked to be in a wedding, you’re gonna have to fork over some cash.”

— Kristen Wiig

45. “I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.”

— Kristen Wiig

46. “I’m one of those people that really pays attention to the music in films.”

— Kristen Wiig

47. “I don’t rehearse a lot. I try to keep it organic. Even in movies, the less I rehearse, the better I am.”

— Kristen Wiig

48. “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.”

— Kristen Wiig

49. “I don’t know if I even consider myself a comedian really – I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.”

— Kristen Wiig

50. “I am shyer than most people think.”

— Kristen Wiig