Actress

I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.

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

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

I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

I can finally say I'm a professional actress.

History is told through the eyes of men about men.

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'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.

I can't walk in heels at all.

I grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, and I don't think I had a friend that wasn't Jewish. I spent more time in a temple than any other house of worship. I've been to about 150 bar and bat mitzvahs.

I think you always carry a little bit of your character you've ever played with you. And I hope I'm able to carry some of Mrs. Maisel with me.

I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent at any given moment, and the audience is right there. I'm really intimidated by theater, but it is my first true love. I love theater. I love that anxiety.

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.

I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

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.

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

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

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.