I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.
No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.
I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.
I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.
I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.
I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.
I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.
My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.
To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.
I was not the kid that hung out at the arcade.
I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.
I like for Sue Sylvester to be firing on all cylinders.
I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.
I grew up in a Southside suburb of Chicago. It was idyllic. But I was plunked into a family that was not artistic and didn't know how to deal with my emotions.
I could be pretty volatile, especially when I didn't feel understood, which was 99 percent of the time. I do think that, as a young person, I suffered over that. But as I look back, it doesn't even feel like part of me - except when I act and need those emotions. Then I can dredge it up.
There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.
When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.
I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.
