Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.

I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid.

My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don't take myself too seriously.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.