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" Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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've been adapting ever since my oldest had her first play date with a boy, and I was like, 'That's not normal,' because I came from the old school. Now boys sleep over at my house. It doesn't matter which girl, which age. "

" 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. "

" Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting. "

" My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing. "

" Sometimes when I'm in the car driving, I scream at the top of my lungs. "

" 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. "

" The only people on this planet that can make me feel like my feelings are hurt are my kids. "

" 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. "

" Literally, FX is like, 'How can we foster your vision?' My vision is pretty much taking pictures of the way I see 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. "

" I've been working since I'm 9 years old. "

" You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change. "

" 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? "

" 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.' "

" There's something in my voice tonally that's like a boy, so I started being able to do boy voices and to be known as having a naturalistic boy tone without pushing it. "

" I never want to waste a frame. I always look and see what I've got. "

" 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. "

" My life is extraordinary because it's so normal, but it's so 'extra' for some reason. "

" 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. "

" One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours. "

" When I saw 'Louie' and 'Girls', I was blown out of the water. They were fearless portrayals of real life. Everyone has a different experience. "

" I've always been kind of a mom. I was out of my house when I was 18, and my friends used to call me 'mother' and 'care unit.' "

" You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids. "

" 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. "

" I want to elevate the mundane. "

" I want to be a strong, safe mom who my kids also want to be around. "