If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

It's hard to get laughs when you're new.

I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah.

When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.