The best and most talented directors - and I think it goes for people too - are the most confident in giving room to their actors and trusting them.

With acting, I started as a kid and it was my safe space and the place where I felt the most free to be all of myself. What gets explored in our show is where that instinct starts and where it meets with career, and how that can change your path a bit.

There is nothing better than a laugh in life. There just isn't.

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved.

I don't think there's anything more scary than being forced into doing stand-up comedy.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.

Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny.