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“I'll do almost anything for a laugh.”
“I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings.”
“Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we'll be like, 'Do you think we can get tickets?' And everybody is like, 'No, why didn't you do this earlier?'”
“I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.”
“I'm a huge 'Ghostbusters' fan. I've seen it, like, 10,000 times, so I couldn't be more looking forward to a reboot.”
“I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.”
“Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.”
“At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.”
“I just don't lose weight easily.”
“One of the best parts of a woman's body is that curve, and I go a little bit higher on all of my things to show off the best part of the hourglass.”
“I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.”
“I feel intensely guilty for working... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.”
“I'm not a great pregnant woman.”
“We have some of the most rock-solid, lovely friends in the world.”
“I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.”
“Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit.”
“I want to make each piece of clothing work 15 different ways.”
“My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.”
“As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.”
“I don't sleep, but I've got two little kids that don't sleep, either.”