Actress

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don't identify myself as being a part of it.

Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.

I feel like that would be pretty strange to meet a voice actor as a kid.

I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.

I had always done broader characters, but going to UCB and speaking to my own voice was important for auditioning for TV and film.

I think that by doing the podcast, I've grown to actually enjoy hosting a little more and realize that my role is a bit of a host, even though I thought I was totally avoiding that by creating this construct. But hosting a late night show has never really been a goal of mine in particular, but it could be fun.

I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.

You have to go as hard as you possibly can, or it's going to be weak. Whenever I find myself not committing fully to a character, it's not as funny. It doesn't have that clear point of view, and you find yourself wandering all over the place, whereas committed characters make strong choices that are clear to the audience.

Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.

It's like, if you tweet anything about One Direction, you'll get a lot of hate - immediately. They're just searching the words and then writing back to anybody who writes about them.

I definitely get inspired by people who are disgusting on some level.

I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

It's really fun to play a character that fights back and say what she means.

Society is really coming to a point where they're not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are.

Getting to be the 'weird roommate' on a sitcom was a dream come true.

I'm more of a tomboy - I fall into the jeans-and-a-T-shirt style, for sure - but I have a girlie side to me.

I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don't think I am like that as a person.