Lauren Ash

“I think confidence is a choice that you have to make. I don't think anybody is necessarily born uber-confident. So I think it's a constant practice.”

“I think what I'm most looking forward to in 2020 is when, you know, we shock everybody and Keanu Reeves reveals that he's actually in love with me and that we actually have to be together.”

“But, Superstore has always done an amazing job of reflecting real life situations and challenges.”

“I think we've been programmed from birth to be a certain way - to be demure, to be polite, and to be nice and to not be boastful or braggadocios in all of these things - and it leads to this kind of tragedy. Women spend so much time hating what they look like.”

“There's always that siren song call from America for actors, I think, in Canada. You always want to know, you never want to not go and not try.”

“My own experience with PCOS shows just how hard it is for women with the condition to get a proper diagnosis.”

“I watch a lot of comedy; I'm a comedy nerd and have watched a lot of it over the years.”

“I wanted to play Dina. I was my managers most annoying client as I kept saying that I needed to get this part.”

“I encourage anyone to try to stop negative self-talk because it's a really powerful thing.”

“'She-Ra' was truly my favorite cartoon growing up.”

“There is no cure for PCOS so it's all about how to make living with it as tolerable as possible.”

“What I really miss are Club Z brand ketchup chips. That was the Zellers brand. Something about those slightly stale, slightly gross, but kind of delicious chips that remind me of home.”

“I just have an endless well of ridiculous things that have happened to me.”

“If I'm going to be honest, did I want to look hot on television again? Yes I did.”

“I was never a rebel or anything like that early on.”

“We've seen how the power of supporting women in media can deeply affect culture and inspire a new generation of courageous trailblazers and for the past 70 years, The Alliance for Women in Media has been doing just that.”

“Improvising with Mark McKinney, my childhood guru, is a dream.”

“My first job was at Zellers in Belleville! It's weird that my first job was in a store like this. And 15 years later I'm playing a character on American television who works there.”

“Celebrity is titillating for a million reasons, right? So I think that's a fun part of it. This job that we do is weird. It's a very specific, odd industry to be a part of on many levels. When you're starting out, it's got a series of interesting quirks. And as you become more successful those quirks just change.”

“When you book a network show as an actor, it's like, 'Oh my gosh, I booked a network show,' and then it gets picked up.”