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“I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.”
“Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's life where they'd be like, 'Your dad changed my life. He's the reason I became a lawyer. He's the reason I started writing. He's the only reason I stayed in school.'”
“'Bridesmaids' was phenomenal. It deserves every accolade it's gotten, and it's exciting for every woman in comedy.”
“I never pursued anything in terms of performing comedy until I was in my twenties. I was basically forced into it by a couple of my friends who were starting a sketch troupe and thought I'd be good at it. I was kind of terrified by it, but I gave it a try. I am so grateful to those guys for believing in me and viciously twisting my arm!”
“As me, I couldn't love my cohorts P.J. Byrne and David Faustino more. I just adore them, and any opportunity to be in a room with them is just a kick in the pants; I love it.”
“I'm always so impressed by people who can just stay super mellow and still be extremely funny.”
“I watch a lot of drama because I do associate comedy with work.”
“I have such sister compassion for women in uniform in life, principally, because now I know how incredibly uncomfortable those uniforms are on top of all the other things they're dealing with that are far more important.”
“It's possible the only thing I love more than working with Gabe Diani and Etta Devine is humiliating myself on film for all to see.”
“It's great to be an actor, and it's great to embody something more than who you are.”
“Because Comic Con in San Diego is crazy, and it's very commercialized, and it's corporate, and it's all about money and selling, selling, selling... I think people want to go to smaller, specialized cons.”
“I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.”
“If you go to my house, it's not like I'm 5, but I definitely have a lot of toys and weird, tiny miniatures.”
“I had a pretty normal, non-Hollywood life for most of my 20s in San Francisco.”
“I love doing voiceover.”
“I think, coming from an improv/sketch background, I'm just used to having people around me to feed off of and support.”
“I wish I felt that I acted like Korra in any part of my life. I really carry around 'Be the leaf' in my head. That's not a character, but it's something from the show that's really impacted my daily life.”
“I was raised by a dad who has a fantastic sense of humor who raised me on 'The Muppet Show,' Steve Martin movies, and Woody Allen's standup, and he really encouraged me to ham it up from an early age.”
“I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.”
“I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.”