Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve -- and makes you laugh along the way.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

Enjoy going through life as yourself.

I don"t feel like there are a tremendous amount of roles for the size I am.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.

If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.