It's sometimes hard to accept that the people you love and feel the closest to may have different dreams and goals from yours, and those are valid. And I've felt that way: accepting people's differences and recognizing them as valid choices even if they're different from your own.

I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.

I'd never really done comedy before Community, so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.

I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, smart, independent woman. Maybe she steered me in that direction. You know, because she was really so ahead of her time.