Because I'd only done theater, that's really what I thought most of my life would be. I always figured that movies would be a part of it at some point. I didn't know how or when.

When you walk on the set, whatever it is, you commit yourself to the job. You're committing yourself to doing the best you can do with it, no matter what you feel about it, and that never changes.

For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy.

You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again.

I didn't want to do television at all. I really didn't want to do it. I really thought I was just going to be doing theater and doing movies.

What I didn't realize is that the writing process for comedies is that you do your table read, and if you aren't funny on that first day during the table read, they take your jokes away and give them to somebody else.