Actress

I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.

I wish I felt that I acted like Korra in any part of my life. I really carry around 'Be the leaf' in my head. That's not a character, but it's something from the show that's really impacted my daily life.

I had a pretty normal, non-Hollywood life for most of my 20s in San Francisco.

I'm always so impressed by people who can just stay super mellow and still be extremely funny.

I watch a lot of drama because I do associate comedy with work.

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

I was raised by a dad who has a fantastic sense of humor who raised me on 'The Muppet Show,' Steve Martin movies, and Woody Allen's standup, and he really encouraged me to ham it up from an early age.

Just doing voices for cartoons is just a dream come true.

If you go to my house, it's not like I'm 5, but I definitely have a lot of toys and weird, tiny miniatures.

Even if you're an optimist, there's some part of you that just tries to toughen up and be pragmatic and go, 'This isn't gonna happen. This isn't gonna happen.' I really felt that way through the process of 'Korra' because I knew 'Avatar,' and I knew how wonderful it was, and I was so terrified.

I have two pets - a dog and a cat.

There is an overarching comedy community, and then there are little comedy community pockets, almost like the way L.A. is structured. You have this grand scope of what Los Angeles is, but within that, there are all of these multi-functioning cities and neighborhoods.

I think, coming from an improv/sketch background, I'm just used to having people around me to feed off of and support.

I did a pilot for Nickelodeon that didn't end up going to series.

Pretty much everything I carry with me, I learned I needed the hard way. I sweated, dry-lipped, dry-mouthed, soaked-to-the-skinned my way through all of these lessons.

I have such sister compassion for women in uniform in life, principally, because now I know how incredibly uncomfortable those uniforms are on top of all the other things they're dealing with that are far more important.

I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.

If you go to my house, it's not like I'm 5, but I definitely have a lot of toys and weird, tiny miniatures.

The good thing about being in San Francisco is it's a city that seems to have the flexibility and undefined boundaries.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.