Actress

I can't take anything seriously.

I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

Early on, you don't have the luxury of a lot of choices. Sometimes you're forced to do things that will advance your career and not necessarily things that fulfill you artistically, but I've been fortunate to do a lot of both.

I really love period pieces.

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.

If you play a doctor on TV, you probably shouldn't try performing surgery.

I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.

Home is where your rump rests.

Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I'm going to try not to completely creep her out. I love 'Insecure.'

I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.

There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing themselves. I'd be far too terrified.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.

I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.

I can finally say I'm a professional actress.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.