I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, ‘I’ll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.’
I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that.
My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.
When I started on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.
What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn’t used to have to do that. But now I do.
Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.
The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it’s just as delightful to be behind camera.
Even when I was at ‘SNL,’ I didn’t do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them – I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show – but I didn’t have any experience.
I don’t like my feet. I’m not crazy about anybody’s feet. But I have flat feet.
I don’t like a tremendous amount of conflict. I don’t think that fighting and passion are the same thing.
I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome.
I didn’t get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.
I am extremely square and obedient in nature!
Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying.
One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don’t have to dress up or put on make-up.
I’m married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.
I was a very confident little kid.
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it’s a little unseemly for women of a certain age.
I feel like I represent normalcy in some way.