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As an actor, there's no faking it.
Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!
I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.
I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.
You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.
There is nothing better than a laugh in life. There just isn't.
Our everyday lives exist with comedy and tragedy next to each other.
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.
I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.
I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.
I'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.
Henry Winkler is the most lovable man. He is like everybody's favorite grandfather.
Usually, when I'm at a festival with a movie that I'm in, I'm in and out in 24 hours.
The worst thing you can have as an actor is too big an ego. It just kills creativity.
I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.
I don't think there's anything more scary than being forced into doing stand-up comedy.
I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.
Sitting around with Jim Carrey, coming up with bits, is, like, beyond a dream come true.
It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
I've had curly hair for years, and I never wore it curly. I didn't know what to do with it.
No one's up in arms about these PG-13 movies where it's literally about the end of the world.
You can only really hear the beat of your own drum if you give yourself the space to sit in it.
I love being onstage. As I've gotten older, it terrifies me more and more, which is interesting.
My mom was in the chorus of 'Hello Dolly' and 'The Worldly Players'; my dad would build the set.
Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.
I can be such a people pleaser, and so worried about what people are thinking or feeling insecure.
I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.
Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.
As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do.
I started acting because it was essentially the way I needed to survive and equalize my inner life.
I've always sort of felt like I was from another time. The '70s is more my vibe. The clothes fit me better.
Stand-up comedy is still a very male-dominated world. You look at a set list and maybe there's one woman on there.
There's something innately funny and warm about being Jewish. I think it's something to be embraced and respected.
It is frustrating that people have a hard time telling other female stories besides, 'Is she going to get the guy?'
I've always just admired women who were able to navigate through dramatic and comedic waters and sort of do it all.
My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.
I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.
I think most people have experienced that at some point: being on one end or the other of a super-unbalanced relationship.
Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.
I didn't want to study theater or go to school in the city. I wanted the all-American 'Here's your quad' college experience.
It's such a tough business. And once people see you a certain way, it's really hard for them to change their minds about you.
When you're having a good time working on something, and you all like each other, it shows in ways that you don't even realize.
Numb3rs' was a wonderful gift because I had not worked in six months. It was so fun to be on that set doing these crazy things.
I think 'Nick and Norah' was a huge deal for me. It was my first foray into the studio world, and that character was such a gift.
The Bowery Hotel is always a great place to meet people for drinks. It's so cozy in there, especially in the late fall and winter.
As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.
Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.
My deepest fear about doing TV, especially about doing a network comedy, was what if it felt too surface-y? What if it felt too jokey?
I require a lot of stimulation, and there's so much I've learned being in front of the camera, I felt like I had more to give behind it.
What I love about our show is that it's so nuanced and feels very real to me. I think how it explores creativity in general is very real.