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" Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am. "
Weird
Me
Mom
" Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything. "
Ground
Anything
Training
" Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing. "
Cooking
Best
Therapy
" Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst. "
You
Worst
Hates
" Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting. "
Happens
Day
Me
" For me, running a set and directing has been the most rewarding thing of my life and a happy surprise, because it was never really on my radar. "
Me
Life
Surprise
" I always tell young people when I'm trying to encourage them, 'You have certain windows in your life, and you have to take advantage of it. You gotta jump through because they will shut on you.' "
Trying
Jump
Life
" I am a single mom of three girls, and I'm getting through that. If I can get through that, I can direct a whole season of television that I star in. "
I Am
Three
Television
" I can't imagine bringing in somebody else to direct my show. Wouldn't that be funny, if next season I had, like, Michael Bay come in and direct 'Better Things'? I wonder what that would be like? "
Show
Season
Funny
" I don't like to let people know where I'm going to end up, and I don't personally like to know where I'm going. "
Going
People
Up
" I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place. "
Doing
Young
Think
" I don't usually say 'working mom' because I think all moms are working moms. I feel like that diminishes moms. People should say 'working dad' as opposed to working moms. "
People
Feel
Working
" If I'm doing a voice-over session, like animation or something, and I'm doing three different voices, you've gotta separate them. You've gotta find the different places and do your different things. "
Like
Doing
Find
" I get up at 6 A.M., and sometimes I make lunch for my two youngest kids. Usually my oldest sleeps late, and I get my kids out the door to school. For years, it was me just doing all of that and then driving to a carpool or this or that. "
Driving
Lunch
School
" I just like to keep things small and subtle and authentic, and ground everything in reality. So that is something that I feel is my strength as a director and I try to achieve as an actor. "
Strength
Small
Achieve
" I learned so much from my life as an actor, as a kid actor through being an adult actor, and then becoming a writer and producer and doing animation. "
Kid
Life
My Life
" I learned so much from the writing on 'King of the Hill', which I thought was just magnificent. They would let real moments happen in this animated, one-dimensional world. I feel like I've been in school this whole time. "
Feel
School
King
" I like people to have their own reaction and their own take on things. And I don't like to shove my - what I want them to feel or think - down their throats. I like people to say, 'What was that about?' or 'Why did that happen?' And so, any reactions are welcome. "
People
Think
Down
" I love that, 'mommy-shaming.' When I was a new mom, I was obsessed with how I was being perceived and trying to fit in as a mom, going to mommy-and-me classes and things like that, and never quite measuring up to 'the real moms,' the 'robot moms,' as I called them. "
Trying
Love
Mom
" I'm more of somebody who'll bend over backwards for people and, you know, wait at the back of the line until everybody's taken care of. That's really my nature. "
Care
You
Wait
" I'm somebody who, if I went to the grocery store, and one of them wasn't with me, I would feel guilty. I would be like, 'I shouldn't be doing anything without them, anytime, ever.' A very codependent way of thinking. Also, motherhood is hugely about guilt. "
Me
Thinking
Guilt
" I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time. "
People
Trying
Time
" I'm very influenced by documentary filmmaking and independent filmmaking, by a lot of noir and films from the '40s. Those are my favorite. And then, filmmaking from the '70s is a big influence for me. "
Filmmaking
Influence
Independent
" I never want to waste a frame. I always look and see what I've got. "
See
Always
Never
" I think, over the years, the way my daughters' friends have embraced me has definitely made my daughters appreciate me more. Of course they take me for granted because I'm the one who's there, but listen, I don't want to be 'the cool mom' who lets things get out of control.That's not my lookout. "
Friends
Cool
Think
" I took my daughters to see Plastic Ono Band at the Orpheum in L.A. in 2012. It was an amazing experience because she is such a revolutionary artist. Everybody was like, 'Oh, it's Yoko, it's such a joke.' But it's no joke what she did, visually and musically. It's incredible. "
Experience
She
Band
" I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show. "
Come
Myself
Way
" It's a hilarious part of my past, all the sitcoms I did in the '80s. And then all the animation - animation is amazing. It's really been great. "
Amazing
Great
Past
" It's spelled, like, S-E-R-G. I always thought it would be funny if I called my son 'Sir.' Like calling your daughter 'Ma'am,' or something like that. "
Daughter
Funny
Son
" I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh. "
Live
People
Important
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