"Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do."
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"There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer."
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"I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success."
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"You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee shop, and have a different kind of life."
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"The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?""
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"Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical story of, "Oh, get a real job. You need to make money." They basically said, "Yup, be an artist. You'll be broke your whole life but you'll be happy.""
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"I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist."
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"There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else."
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"If I had a child and she was a girl, I'd hope she'd do something different from me."
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"Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into."
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"I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent."
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"I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts."
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"I work constantly to be better at being rejected."
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"Even though I'm on a show that I love with people that I love - I have basically the dream job - that doesn't mean I'm not getting rejected on a daily basis."
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"Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected."
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"Being an actor is definitely not the hardest job in the world - it's definitely a first-world problem to have, but I'm not very good with rejection. I constantly question whether or not I'm suited for this business, because it is your job to get rejected."
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"The reason actors are assholes is because they don't eat."
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"We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv."
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"Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected."
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"There are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this.""
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