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" As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back. "
Yourself
Choice
Strong
" As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland. "
Gate
Compare
Try
" At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight. "
Life
Past
Get
" Body-shaming is something I feel really strongly about. I think about my niece, I think about my friends who have daughters being on the Internet and reading these things, and it just makes me furious. It makes me so angry. "
Me
Think
Reading
" I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program. "
School
Living
Go
" I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known. "
Know
You
Think
" If you only live in the world of the actor, and if you only live in the world of auditions, etc., then you don't really have a whole lot to offer when it comes to playing the humans that you're trying to audition for. "
World
You
Actor
" I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable. "
Celebrity
Kind
Out
" I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me. "
Television
Stop
Me
" I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes. "
Sometimes
Reputation
Far
" I moved to Chicago and I did theater, and then I started writing and I stop acting and I did sketch. You know, I did all of the things that, if you were serious about doing television, don't do. "
You
Stop
Serious
" Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon. "
Training
You
Improve
" I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating. "
Dreaming
Past
Point
" It was important for me as a theater artist to allow myself and my interests to evolve over time and allow my notion of what success meant to evolve over time. I've always had a day job and never been just acting. But it didn't make me feel like I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing. "
Day
Success
Myself
" I've always had a day job and never been just acting. "
Just
Never
Job
" I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked. "
Years
Things
Along
" I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way to symbolize you're a mom. "
Comedy
You
Way
" I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling. "
Friendly
Humbling
People
" I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle. "
Me
School
New York
" I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up. "
Three
Speak
Chicago
" I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people. "
Tiny
Three
Years
" My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.' "
Happy
Me
Mother
" The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level. "
Work
Done
Kind
" What is right is not always popular. "
Popular
Right
Always
" When I first got out of school, I went on a children's theater tour, and I went around the country a little bit that fall, and it was the first time I went to Chicago. We spend a couple of days in Chicago, and I was really struck viscerally by the city. "
School
Days
City
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