I have a sister, in particular, who's 13 years older than me. So growing up and watching her - watching her go to work, especially - was hugely influential to me. As the youngest, with a sibling that's a decade older, I had certain things that I would go to her about instead of my mother.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

At the beginning of my career, I worked for a lot of people who nobody knew, who have come up to be people that everybody knows.

I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.