I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

You're making a fantasy. You're making something real out of a fantasy. And then it no longer exists. It's heartbreaking to leave behind. I was devastated after Waiting for Guffman. I had never gotten so close to people I've worked with.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we're waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience.