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I got my degree in rhetoric.
Being an outsider helps breed comedy.
Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.
The hardest thing in the world to depict dramatically is stand-up.
My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.
I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'
I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.
Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.
Stand-up's hard. It's one of the hardest things in the world, and it's really lonely.
I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.
I am a fan of whatever makes me laugh my ass off. If it happens to be a Jew joke, then it's a Jew joke.
When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.
'Getting On' - that show, it broke my heart. It really was like the greatest love of my life. I'm forever changed by it.
Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.
Never try to fit a target audience. Write what is true to the characters in their settings and the audience will find you.
Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.
I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.
I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.
I think all shows change as they age as do the people who make the shows. As do the people who watch the shows. All targets are moving.
I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.
'Getting On' is just the coolest experience ever, and working with people like Laurie Metcalf, that's the joy. That's what I love about it.
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
I love the freedom of voice-over and the ability to play multiple characters I could never play in real life: a hot young woman, a little boy.
My rhetoric degree ended up being very helpful in advertising. I got an internship and then figured I will be a copywriter; that will be my path.
I still get very uncomfortable and flushed on the street if somebody recognizes me or stops me. I don't know what to say. It's uncomfortable and strange.
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
If for no other reason than it's just fun to watch people age, and it's fun to watch what happened to '80s hairdos and outfits, and what they look like now.
I think this [Feels like Christmas] is one of the greatest, most unsung albums ever. It's Cyndi Lauper, and it's called Hat Full Of Stars. She's so underrated.
My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox, so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.
I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.
I don't do sketch anymore and sometimes I miss it. But I think what I really miss is that time in my life, it was kind of like college. No kids, no real responsibilities, just comedy, food and late nights.
I don't want pictures of my kids anywhere. I don't tweet pictures of my kids. I don't put them on any social media. I definitely do like to keep some privacy that way. And mostly, it's fear-based; people are crazy.
I've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine.
Guys can look like pigs. The girl always has to be a looker. Look at most TV shows: According To Jim - pig and a looker. Still Standing - pig and a looker. Ralph Kramden [on The Honeymooners] - pig and a looker. Family Guy - pig and a looker. It's a theme.
Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'
My uncle is a hemophiliac, and my brother is one as well. I am a carrier, and it's a disease that my kids also deal with. It's something that has affected my family and I for so long, and I think it's actually what drove me to comedy as a means to cope during tough times.
I was kind of the comic relief in my household. We had a chronic illness in the family. And so, a lot of emergency room visits, and my role was to be silly and add levity, and we're Jewish. So every Passover is a performance. You kind of learn to role play and do voices at the Passover Seder.
If you believe in romance, and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce. It's like, with 'Getting On,' a lot of people say, 'I don't want to watch that. It's so dark.' But you can't just want to go to weddings and children's birthday parties. You've got to witness it all.
The writing is amazing because having a hand in creating what you're going to be performing... there's nothing like it. It's always going to be better suited for you. You're always going to know the lines faster, because you wrote it. The writing is so very hard. It's the hardest part of the whole process. In some ways the acting is a lot easier and a lot more fun.