Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.

We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.

I think we need to have stories about women that don't necessarily fit the trope of the classic woman, because they do exist. We have to show real life on TV and film. And we don't. We only see maybe 5 percent of what real people are really like. I mean, movies set in Los Angeles that don't have any minorities in them - how does that happen?

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.