Actress

I like grown up comedy.

I love fashion, and I love how it makes me feel, but it doesn't rule my life.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.

I married my husband because I loved him, and I don't feel like there's anybody missing from our marriage, but when you think about this person that you love, and you think about what a wonderful thing it would be to bring another person like that into this world, I think that's the hardest part about all of it.

I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.

I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.

God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that's true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

I won't apologize for choosing my career over kids.

I married my college boyfriend, so I've been with him since I was a kid.

I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

I think, like most gamers, I talk a good game.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.

Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.