Michaela Watkins

“I don't come from a Hollywood family. I don't have Hollywood friends. I didn't have any connections.”

“I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.”

“I know friends who have this sort of incredibly intimate relationship with their sibling. And I don't get it: it wasn't like that in my family. In some ways, I'm envious, because they have someone that's so completely in their corner. And at the same time, I imagine it may at times feel like it's stunting.”

“Everyone's job is invaluable. Film and TV production is collaboration.”

“I'd love to do a Marvel movie.”

“My mom is an avid musical theatergoer. My dad would always get a subscription to the Syracuse Stage. I was always exposed to theater. So I went to a theater conservatory at Boston University.”

“When my parents were divorced in the late '70s, early '80s, the climate was that you should screw over your ex as much as possible - get the worst lawyer in the world, all that. That's not what people are out to do anymore. It feels cruddy to try and destroy each other just because you're breaking up.”

“I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible.”

“The wardrobe department isn't a bunch of elves there to serve you; they're artists with vision. Honor them.”

“I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.”

“As far as celebrity, people don't stop me on the street and know who I am. It's more like, 'Doesn't she remind you of so-and-so's ex-girlfriend?' It's always somebody's ex-girlfriend. Somebody ex-girlfriend who's 'crazy.'”

“I am just scared to death of online dating.”

“You know how when you're alone with your cat, your cat is kind of silly and goofy and kind of crazy? And as soon as people come over, your cat is like someone you've never met before? You know, poised. That's sort of what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez.”

“Because I do mostly comedy, I'm usually working with friends, and it's usually a ball.”

“My rule of thumb is to always do what's on the page first. Then you can talk to your director about playing with it. Improv frees me up in a character, but I would be mortified if the writers who agonized over their words assumed I thought my improv was more valuable.”

“A great time in my life was being totally single and actively not dating. Just saying, 'I'm gonna not be in a relationship. I'm gonna not date.' That was a super fun, awesome time.”

“I loved the movie 'Dangerous Liasons' with John Malkovich.”

“Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.”

“I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been.”

“I love comedies, both broad and subtle.”