I really love period pieces.
Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me.
If you play a doctor on TV, you probably shouldn't try performing surgery.
I grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, and I don't think I had a friend that wasn't Jewish. I spent more time in a temple than any other house of worship. I've been to about 150 bar and bat mitzvahs.
I can't walk in heels at all.
Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.
I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.
I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.
I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.
I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.
I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.
History is told through the eyes of men about men.
I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.
I think you always carry a little bit of your character you've ever played with you. And I hope I'm able to carry some of Mrs. Maisel with me.
Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.
I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.
I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.
