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'm a little quirky, a little offbeat, and I'm certainly not a classic beauty.
I've started to get more stage fright the older I get.
I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk.
I think it's important to have goals and to have dreams, but you also have to live in the moment of what the reality is.
People remember the last thing you did.
Sitting around with Jim Carrey, coming up with bits, is, like, beyond a dream come true.
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.
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.
When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass. We need to have all kinds of characters represented.
I would love to be in 'Downton Abbey.' That's the thing I thing many people would have a good laugh with me saying anything like that. I feel like that's the next phase of my career. To reprove to everyone that I can do things besides the crazy characters.
At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald Margulies, which was equal parts funny and sad. I realized that the more seriously I expressed my character's feelings, the funnier the scene became.
I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.
I was made fun of for being fat from fourth or fifth grade to eighth grade. That was pretty rough.
There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.
Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.
I want the power that comes from expressing myself creatively and putting something back into the world. Being someone's muse would be flattering, but it could get old fast.
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.
Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!
You can only really hear the beat of your own drum if you give yourself the space to sit in it.
