I think of my gender as a part of my complex humanity.
I like dressing like I'm going on a date when I'm on stage.
There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.
I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.
A lot of people think that I'm one of the women from 'Broad City' - and I'm just not.
Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.
It looks like I'm just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let's just do that.
I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.
I have things I say over and over again, for sure, but I've never wanted to make an album or really go on the road. I don't want any traction. I just want to be able to express myself and to feel love.
I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.
It was so quick for me on 'SNL.' It's not something I consider to be, like, one of the big spaces in my career.
I always thought that farts were funny, and I always thought that they were mine to talk about because they came out of my body.
I think I was aware when I started doing stand-up, especially on my own, that, yeah, I'm getting up on stage, and I'm a woman, and I dress in a sort of typically feminine fashion.
I like to wear dresses and skirts when I go onstage because the attitude that I have is, 'I'm so excited to introduce myself to you.' And I want to be wearing what I'd be wearing to a date or a dinner party.
'Obvious Child,' the short, had a nice life online and a great festival run, but the short and the feature still stand apart from everything else I've done. I play a woman who you might meet in life. My other work is much more heightened.
There's not one type of stand-up, just like there's not one type of woman.
Don't think twice. If it's a character that you feel compelled to play and story that you feel needs to be told, don't think twice.
I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.
It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.
For some reason, I never watched Lifetime but just discovered it. I was like, 'Oh, it's all rom-coms!'
