“All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.”

“Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.”

“At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.”

“Debra Winger blows me away, always.”

“Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.”

“Everything related to 'SNL,' that was very sudden - from the time I found out I was joining the cast to the time I could read on a blog that someone watching the show thinks I'm fat, that was about 30 days. That blog part, that could've moved a little more slowly. But hey - it's all material, right?”

“Frankly, 'Bride Wars' got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love.”

“I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.”

“I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.”

“I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.”

“I love Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Adele.”

“I love the area I grew up in, which is right outside D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.”

“I still am not a size two - I don't think I could get there if I wanted to.”

“I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.”

“I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.”

“I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.”

“I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.”

“If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it's a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing.”

“If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world.”

“If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.”

“If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.”

“I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor!”

“I'm a voyeuristic American.”

“I'm the girl that writes feverishly in my tiny trailer on set.”

“Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.”

“It's always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see and love.”

“It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.”

“I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV.”

“Jake Johnson is one of my oldest friends.”

“Kenya Moore is everything to me. She's everything.”

“Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.”

“My dad always said that 90 percent of marital problems could be solved by getting your blood sugar up, and he's right! So I would say pick a partner who's forgiving when you have low blood sugar and threaten to drive your car through your shared home.”

“My dad would write these sketches for me while I was at 'SNL.'”

“My dad's cool. He is socially liberal.”

“My goal is to generate more material for myself.”

“My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'”

“My mom worked tirelessly on getting equal rights for women.”

“New York is hard living. It's fun living, but it's hard.”

“Not everyone is married at 25 and taken care of.”

“On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything.”

“Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from 'Annie Hall.'”

“Posturing is funny to me.”

“So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.”

“Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'”

“Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I've just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.”

“The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.”

“There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.”

“There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?”

“When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.”

“When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.”

“When you're on a road trip, anything goes.”

“You only feel as good as your last sketch.”