Actress

I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.

My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.

I just like playing unique characters that I love.

I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

Everyone has some kind of light inside them.

I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.

There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

Everyone has some kind of light inside them.

I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.

It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

I started watching 'SNL' when I was thirteen or so; those were the Molly Shannon/Ana Gasteyer/Cheri Oteri years.

Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'

I will not hear a word against him. I love my Bieber!

Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.

My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.