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I'm very driven by writing.
Marriage can be complicated.
I try to put my own history in my work.
I have always loved both drama and comedy.
If it's not happening, write your own thing!
I want to do something I feel like I can do.
I went to drama school at New York University.
There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.
I do use my body a lot, to click into a character.
The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.
I really love having lots of down time with my kids.
When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.
I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys.
I like both movies and TV, so I don't have some big grand plan.
Most comedians come from a dark past and have a lot of sadness.
The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.
You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.
Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.
I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.
People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.
I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.
I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
I can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it.
Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.
I don't want to do something, if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.
I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.
I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.
Without a doubt, the worst part of being a mom is having to floss my kids' teeth every night. It's so tedious.
I never think I want to try to be funny. And humor, if there is anything funny, should come from a real place.
Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.
I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.
I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.
There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.
Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
I used to watch 'SNL' when I was babysitting, after I put the kids to bed. It was the Gilda Radner and Bill Murray era. I loved it.
In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.
I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.
I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.
I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."
I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.
I think in show business, it's really kind of easy to perpetuate that feeling of, like, Oh, I don't measure up. Or always having to prove yourself.
I guess I have a positive attitude about divorce because I have some friends who've gotten divorced, and I'm like, 'Well, if it's better, then - good!'
If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.
When I was 12, my friend and I tried to sneak onto a plane from my hometown of Cleveland to New York City! My dad encouraged us - he was a wild guy, big on jokes.
I feel like there is this resurgence of amazing roles for women. It's because TV is so good - there are amazing parts for women on TV, and it's upped the game in movies.
My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.
I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.
I've got wonderful people I get to work with, and I'm trying to focus on that, instead of worrying about, Aw, who doesn't want to work with me? You focus on the ones who do.
When I see a mom embarrassed because her kid is having a temper tantrum, I'm like, 'Please! Do you think I've never gone through that?' Women tend to be too hard on themselves.