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When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.
I feel like when I go on stage I feel so excited at the prospect that there will be a true connection.
My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.
I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.
There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.
That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.
I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.
You don't have to be in the brightest, shiniest state of being an individual to feel like you're exceptional.
Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.
I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.
A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.
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.
It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.
I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.
It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.
I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.
I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.
You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.
There are so many different stories. You can choose to tell them, or not, but they certainly have the right to exist
Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.
I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.
Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.
I know sometimes my Twitter feed is intense, but I take it as a friendly void to scream into. I don't have another way to be.
I was a teenager in '95, so I didn't dress like a woman then. I was really small. I remember wishing I wasn't wearing Gap Kids.
I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.
Don't be snarky, but don't be saccharine. Don't pander, but don't shut people out. Go straight down the line with the performance.
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.
'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.
The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.
It takes a while to realize that just because you're a stand-up comedian and you do comedy, you're not going to be good at all comedy.
I'm usually a fairly harsh critic. It depends. I tend to really not watch my work, because I just feel uncomfortable, and I can be highly critical.
I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.
You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.
I wanted to be in New York because I wanted to be on 'SNL.' I spent a lot of time wanting to be on 'Saturday Night Live' as a kid. That's what I wanted.
It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with their body in a safe and responsible way is infuriating.
TV can be fairly rigid. I've done enough Network TV to know that it's fun but if I have to go somewhere every day maybe it's not the most satisfying [job].
It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.
I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.
I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way.
I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.
When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.
There's a part of me that would love to be in an action movie where I get to run around and punch people in the face and, whatever, be a murderer, I don't care!
I don't like taking physical risks at all. I take a lot of emotional risks, and I don't feel like I need to get on a bike or a horse or jump off of anything ever.
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've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.
I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.
At the beginning of my career, fresh out of college, I did everything that I could do. And now I'm a little bit more selective. I think that's sort of a natural process.
There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.
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.