As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

I just want to be clear, I am a very dark and bitter person, but I think on some level, everything really does come when it's meant to come.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.