We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn't my real job. My real job was to be an actor. I always knew that and never forgot that.
Jessica St. Clair
It's very hard to fake. When you see Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig in 'Bridesmaids,' you can tell they really love each other.
If we're having a tough day, we'll bring the babies on, and suddenly, these crew guys who have, like, tattoos all over their necks are cooing and fawning.
I love Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox's real-life relationship.
Did I still feel like I'd been run over by a Mack Truck? Absolutely. It's chemo, after all.
The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you're trying to do - you can't fake it.
What I love about 'Modern Family' is that it makes you laugh, and there's hilarious physical gags that are outrageous, but there's real heart to it, and you feel good after you watch it.
I've been trying to cram myself down the throats of America for a longer time than I care to remember.
In Hollywood, normally things don't work out, and dreams are crushed.
Let's see, what was my favorite of 'Golden Girls'. Anything Stan was involved with, I was obsessed with.
What best friends do so well is they just waste time.
In my life, I got a haircut junior year of college that was a real wash-'n-go type of situation. It was short. I had six or seven people say I looked just like Hugh Grant. And I was like, 'That's a man. So... that's not nice.'
I'm not on Facebook because I can't open the door to the past.
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
I've been in the emergency room for food poisoning.
I was bored by going to Mommy and Me, and I certainly didn't want to write about it.
Keegan-Michael Key and Lindsay Sloane are two of the best, literally, just dramatic actors.
I can't tell you how many bizarre shows at UCB I was a part of.
The one piece of advice I would give to all girlfriends - or guy friends, too, I guess - is that if you're going to have a fight in a Baja Fresh parking lot, make sure one of you has an available pair of sunglasses because whoever is crying is going to want to wear them.
I remember watching 'I Love Lucy' from an early age, 'Laverne & Shirley.'
One of my biggest and most influential was 'The Golden Girls.' That show, I remember specific episodes.
I would never knowingly go and date somebody that my friend loved.
I was so flat-chested in high school that I thought I'd better be funny if guys were going to like me.
A lot of comedy on television has a reserve to it, and it's a little too cool for school.
If you write for somebody that you know, then your job is so much easier.
The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that's happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.
Even though Laverne and Shirley were always, like, submitting themselves for medical testing and falling asleep on a date or whatever, they always had each other's back.
I can't watch most movies because they scare me too much.
I'm so terrified to write that I don't type at all.
Darius Rucker is straight up the most charming, handsome man you have ever met in your entire life.
I think the medium of television is so great for women, especially right now, because I feel like with 'Broad City' and Amy Schumer and 'Girls', the creators are the stars, so their voice is totally pure.
For Lennon and me, we grew up with Laverne and Shirley or Lucy and Ethel. For us, those are our inspirations. And I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey led the way for us to be fearless in the way we kept shoving our message and our comedy voice down people's throats until they listened.
Cancer doesn't just happen to me; it happens to my best friend; it happens to everyone who means something in my life... The truth is, it does take a village to take care of somebody who's sick, and so we just, at all times, tried to be authentic to the actual experience we had.
If I texted somebody that I was having a down day, in seconds I would have somebody either call me or show up at my door.
'Gilmore Girls' was a passion of mine, to the point where Lennon actually can't watch it because if she does, then we might be fully ripping them off.
'Downton Abbey'. I love all things olden-days, and I'm very interested in somebody brushing my hair out at the end of the night.
Shortly after I finished chemo, but during my 12 weeks of radiation, Lennon and I returned to work on the third season of the show we write, produce and star in, 'Playing House.'
We hope that by sharing my experience - our experience, Lennon and I - that somebody who is going through this process or helping their loved one through it might feel less alone, and might even have some better information for their cancer care.
In this business, you never really expect a second season of something.
The truth is that when Lennon is Bosephus, she is so mean to me. She can't smile because the mustache will come off. So in between takes, it's just scowling. And then when we are on camera, Bosephus treats me like a piece of meat. I'm repulsed and also attracted to it.
We're in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn't matter where you're airing.
I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly wrong.
I had breast cancer.
Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.
For the readers out there, if your girlfriend says she's having a girls' weekend, do not show up with a bottle of rose. No one wants to see your face there.
For me, the first thing I fell madly in love with when I was little, was, Gilda Radner had this live performance that she had done at the Met that was on tape, and I could rent it from Video Video in New Jersey where I lived, and so I literally would rent it every two weeks.
I found out my baby was visiting Julie Chen a lot, from 'The Talk', and my nanny was just like, 'Oh yeah, that's Julie. We pop in on her all the time.'
I would trust Lennon not only to babysit my child but to raise them. Literally, that's who I would want to raise my child.
Lennon has an amazing ability to think before she speaks. She doesn't have to constantly be talking. She just thinks, and when she speaks, it's thoughtful. She's very calm. I'm trying to learn that from her.
I think sometimes when you have 24 episodes, you almost have to stretch things out too much.
