Paula Pell

“My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.”

“Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.”

“Twitter is really - I got very addicted to it just because it's so simple, and it's like a video game for comedy writers to just do a one-liner about something.”

“I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.”

“I went to college at University of Tennessee.”

“When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.”

“I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.”

“I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.”

“Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.”

“I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.”

“Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.”

“It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.”

“My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.”

“All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.”

“At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.”

“You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you're having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh - which is terrifying... People are filing into the audience, and you're writing a new joke for the end of it.”

“My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.”

“I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.”

“I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I'm really pushing myself to do these new projects. It's scary as hell, but it's fun to have other things to keep my creative brain cooking.”

“If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'”