Cecily Strong Quotations

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

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

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

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.

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just dont take them very often.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Theres so much more bad information than good information out there - everybodys got something to say and its usually wrong.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.