I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.
I also think if you’re an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you’re just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that’s not in the commercial they think you’re a genius.
Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.
In conclusion, I invite the media to all grow a pair. And if you can’t, I will lend you mine.
I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.
I’ve always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.
I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.
I cannot stress enough that the answer to life’s questions is often in people’s faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people’s faces. People’s faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
I don’t really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don’t know what I would do without it.
You aren’t allowed to feel special, but no one knows the specific ways you are in pain.
You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don’t know about. Limit your ‘always’ and your ‘nevers.’
Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.
We may all host ourselves to death, and if we’re all dead who will host our funerals?
The great thing about taking big chances when you’re younger is you have less to lose, and you don’t know as much. So you take big swings.
I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don’t. Who cares?
My idea of the perfect exercise class is this: The teacher gives us all a hug and goes, ‘You did it! You showed up! Let’s lie down.’ We all lie down and she’s like, ‘How is everybody feeling?’ We’re like, ‘Great!’ And the teacher’s like, ‘Great!’ Then we all get to leave 20 minutes early.
The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.
Anybody who doesn’t make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.