Actress

I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.

If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.

I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

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.

I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.

I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.

I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'

If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.

I pride myself on being tragically uncool.

I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.

I just like playing unique characters that I love.

I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.