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" You just tell a good story where you're funny and it makes people laugh. "

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" Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down. "

" You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.' "

" Second City Las Vegas is very different from Second City in Chicago on the main stage, where they do improv sets. That's how they kind of hone material, kind of work up to new material. "

" I was auditioning a lot in L.A., and I was actually getting called back a lot for sitcoms. But I wasn't getting jobs. I even tested for 'Saturday Night Live' and didn't get that. "

" No one ever actually said they were resistant because 'Pitch Perfect' was female-centric. When a project is sitting there for a while, you start to speculate about what could be the thing that might be a little tricky about it. "

" Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives. "

" It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else. "

" Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it. "

" On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too. "

" When I was younger, I wanted my hair to look like Molly Ringwald's. "

" I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball. "

" I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right? "

" When I was in college, I started an improv group, and I did a bunch of plays and some musicals. I have a theater degree. I'm a school person: I like getting homework and having deadlines. When I graduated, I worked right away as an actor. "

" I would be writing while I was breastfeeding. I didn't want the computer to be too close to her, so it was at an arm's distance away while I was clickety-clack typing away. "

" I started writing when I was trying to be an actor, and I happened to be friends with Tina Fey, who happened to have her show '30 Rock' coming out. So Tina, who happens to be a mentor to me, gave me my slot and hired me. "

" Tina Fey is my mentor, whether she likes it or not. "

" I saturated myself with the improv community. "

" 'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things. "

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" I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious. "

" I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!' "

" It's not about having luck; it's about putting yourself in a position of luck. "

" On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.' "

" I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to. "

" I'm actually from a small town about an hour and a half south of Chicago. "

" Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail. "

" I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team. "