Don’t ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing- everyone needs somebody to help them along when they’re first starting out.
I like people trying to do two things at once.
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.
I love working on the fly when the writers come up with new jokes on show nights. It’s exciting. I love it so much.
I can access emotions very easily.
I can tell when men are threatened by my height.
Great drama is all about conflict, and what’s a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.
An agent said he didn’t know what to do with me, I wouldn’t be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.
It’s a great way to start the day, hearing you’ve been nominated for an Emmy. It’s just thrilling.
The live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It’s like going on stage.
I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it’s hard to be a woman in a man’s world.
Comedy is a serious business. It’s frustrating when I can’t find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don’t make them laugh, I get very disappointed in myself. You don’t really have a live audience, so you just depend on the crew to let you know if you’re doing something funny.
I’m not very comfortable being an actorvist so to get to do something that I believe in is a much more comfortable way for me to be political.
I’m the worst speller on the planet. I’m so glad for spellcheck on my phone.
I always feel like a doctor who loses a patient on the operating table or something where I felt just devastated and I beat myself up until I get to try it the next night and “I’ll get it better tonight.” So I’m hard on myself. I think I’m not alone in that regard with acting.
I can’t imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?
I never stop. I don’t want to stop acting because I’m afraid it’ll all end, so I never say no.
One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.
It’s a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don’t buy it at first because it’s your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.
It’s hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.