voice actress Quotes

"A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own."

"Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to...

"You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who...

"To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I'm not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person...

"Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get;...

"Sleep is out... tired is the new black."

"The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not."

"I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves."

"You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look."

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken."

"When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at...

"Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff."

"Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake."

"When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening."

"Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed."

"You can't look stupid if you're having fun."

"I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler."

"I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for...

"Other people are not medicine."

"Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled...

"Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men."

"Women need to take charge of their lives and be as dynamic and active as they can be. I know that some people feel that there's a negative connotation to the notion of feminism like it has some hidden and...

"Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier."

"There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and...

"That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. 'Good for her! Not for me.'"

"Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh."

"Masters of Sex is the degree I got from Boston College."

"Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release."

"Forgiveness is something that's always possibility."

"Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors."

"Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken."

"I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things."

"Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe...

"You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance."

"I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and...

"You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control."

"If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch."

"I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world."

"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one...

"Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented."

"Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul."

"I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine months pregnant now have to work till the bitter end - they don't get to be on TV."

"Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you."

"If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else."

"If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces."

"Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL' was totally different. It was exciting because everyone was paying attention. Political humor works when people know what...

"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."

"Ang Lee's been nominated for best director for "Life of Pi," which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off."

"I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like...

"We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave...

"Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends."

"Please don't drive drunk, okay? Seriously... But by all means, walk drunk. That looks hilarious. Everyone loves to watch someone act like they are trying to make it to safety during a hurricane."

"I think the hardest thing is to know what you want, ask for it, and then to stop talking."

"Opening your heart and being courageous and telling people that you care about them or like them or that you think they're special only makes you a better, bigger, kinder, softer, more loving person, and only attracts more love into...

"I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled."

"Nobody looks stupid when they are having fun."

"We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?"

"Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing...

"You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared."

"Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success."

"Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting."

"I believe great people do things before they are ready."

"In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains."