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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. "

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" 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.' "

Allison Tolman

Happy

Mother

" 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. "

Allison Tolman

School

New York

" 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. "

" 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. "

Allison Tolman

Television

Stop

" I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always had a day job and never been just acting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Allison Tolman

Think

Reading

" 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. "

" I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known. "

" I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes. "

" 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. "

" I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people. "

" 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. "

Allison Tolman

School

Living

" I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling. "

" As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland. "

" At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight. "