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" Evvverrrrybody wants to know what it's like working with Jennifer Lopez. "

Michaela Watkins

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" I'd love to do a Marvel movie. "

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" 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. "

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" When I got 'Trophy Wife', the first fear is, 'This could go away;' the second is, 'It's here and I love it; I hope it gets a second season.' "

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" What's fun now is that I have a show at USA that I co-wrote called 'Benched.' I'm completely behind the scenes and not the actor at all. "

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" I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something. "

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" I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been. "

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" I love comedies, both broad and subtle. "

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" I made a pact with myself when I was 12 that I would only work with people who make me happy. I choose happy. "

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" When my parents were divorced in the late '70s, early '80s, the climate was that you should screw over your ex as much as possible - get the worst lawyer in the world, all that. That's not what people are out to do anymore. It feels cruddy to try and destroy each other just because you're breaking up. "

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" Everyone's job is invaluable. Film and TV production is collaboration. "

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" 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. "

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" I am just scared to death of online dating. "

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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. "

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" I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person. "

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" I say yes to everything if I like the overall thing that's being put out there. I'll do anything with David Wain. "

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" I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely. "

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" Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible. "

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" 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. "

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" When you're casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going to be very well-known names. "

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" 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. "

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