I was a theater nerd.

I live a pretty normal life.

I have impossible standards.

I'm perfect. We're all perfect.

I think I was always the class clown.

I have to say I don't mind getting older.

Women just get really hard on each other.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

You find your tribe and you stick with them.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.

I went to Catholic school for the cheapest private education.

I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

Working, I can be my truest self. I don't know how healthy that is.

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

I'm always in awe of improvisers that make something out of complete nothing.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

I went to Catholic school growing up. I can barely remember any prayers or anything!

Just looking at each other is something really moving to me, more so than the nudity.

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.

I'm always blown away by stand-ups. I'm blown away by people like that who are craftspeople at comedy.

It's funny: I did 'Step Brothers' the same summer I did 'Revolutionary Road,' which are completely different.

It is no small thing that the juiciest and most complicated roles of my life have come post-having two children.

As a mother, I've seen a lot of animated movies, and, I've got to say, there's so much crap out there for children.

The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

I'm really grateful that my baby daddy is incredibly involved. But there's certain things I wish he could just telepathically know.

You can probably ask my husband, and he might tell you differently, but I feel very much like I'm kind of cautious in my real life.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.

I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.

I think I'm accidentally funny more so than thinking of it as a craft. I'm in awe of those comedians that know how to hit it again and again and again.

It is okay to be a really good mom that loves her kids and also every month need a cool girls night out. It will make you a better mom to blow off steam.

It really is a biological bummer that a woman's chief moneymaking years align with her most fertile. It sucks. I wish that there was some way you could invert it.

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

Your creative life can continue to just turn inside out and evolve in ways that you can't possibly imagine, whether or not you decide to be a parent. It doesn't matter.

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

I loved doing 'Bad Moms.' I loved doing 'We're the Millers.' But now that I've tasted complexity, it doesn't matter what the genre is - it would be really hard to go back.

Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and developing a new character.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

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