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" A great time in my life was being totally single and actively not dating. Just saying, 'I'm gonna not be in a relationship. I'm gonna not date.' That was a super fun, awesome time. "
Dating
Time
Relationship
" As far as celebrity, people don't stop me on the street and know who I am. It's more like, 'Doesn't she remind you of so-and-so's ex-girlfriend?' It's always somebody's ex-girlfriend. Somebody ex-girlfriend who's 'crazy.' "
Crazy
Know
I Am
" As much as I would have loved to look like Jennifer Aniston in 'Friends,' that didn't happen. And I really tried! I hit that gym! I got a flatiron. But it didn't happen. "
Friends
Happen
Gym
" Because I do mostly comedy, I'm usually working with friends, and it's usually a ball. "
Ball
Because
Comedy
" Everyone's job is invaluable. Film and TV production is collaboration. "
Collaboration
TV
Job
" Evvverrrrybody wants to know what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez. "
Know
Jennifer
Like
" I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something. "
Respect
I Think
Guy
" I am just scared to death of online dating. "
Am
Dating
Scared
" I'd love to do a Marvel movie. "
Marvel
Love
Movie
" I do like to play people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in a room with. "
Room
Want
Five
" I don't come from a Hollywood family. I don't have Hollywood friends. I didn't have any connections. "
Hollywood
Friends
Family
" I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person. "
Think
Person
Anxiety
" I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely. "
Comedy
Get
Physical
" I have this weird optimism that when things are not good - like, really, genuinely not good - that we shall persevere. "
Optimism
Like
Things
" I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible. "
Possible
People
Laugh
" I know friends who have this sort of incredibly intimate relationship with their sibling. And I don't get it: it wasn't like that in my family. In some ways, I'm envious, because they have someone that's so completely in their corner. And at the same time, I imagine it may at times feel like it's stunting. "
Time
Sibling
Relationship
" I love comedies, both broad and subtle. "
Subtle
Both
Broad
" I loved the movie 'Dangerous Liasons' with John Malkovich. "
John
Loved
Movie
" I love working so much. For me, working equals happiness. "
Working
Much
Me
" I made a pact with myself when I was 12 that I would only work with people who make me happy. I choose happy. "
Work
Choose
Myself
" I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been. "
Behavior
Human Behavior
Human
" I'm happy because I was proud of what I did at 'SNL.' It's the only time probably in my life that I didn't have any regrets. I worked really hard. I played really nice. I threw myself into it. I committed. Beyond that, what else could I have done? "
Myself
Nice
Time
" I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all. "
Love
Myself
People
" I say yes to everything if I like the overall thing that's being put out there. I'll do anything with David Wain. "
Everything
Yes
Say
" It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfect amount of time. The only thing that matters is what you do with yourself in that moment after. If you decide, 'I'm the girl who was fired from 'SNL,' you're just that. "
Best
Girl
Me
" I went on a road trip and ended up in Portland, Oregon, and from there, I did non-stop theater. I had just graduated, and I had all these ideas about what good acting was, but I hadn't put any of it into action. I spent five years honing my acting chops. And then I had this epiphany one day that I need to go to L.A.; I need to be on a sitcom. "
Good
Day
Road
" Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something. "
Women
Crazy People
Crazy
" My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking. "
Way
Problem-Solving
Think
" My mom is an avid musical theatergoer. My dad would always get a subscription to the Syracuse Stage. I was always exposed to theater. So I went to a theater conservatory at Boston University. "
Boston
Always
University
" My rule of thumb is to always do what's on the page first. Then you can talk to your director about playing with it. Improv frees me up in a character, but I would be mortified if the writers who agonized over their words assumed I thought my improv was more valuable. "
Words
Page
Me
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