You don't have to be in our industry to have a panic attack about your career when you're pregnant. Even if you're a lawyer, you can think, 'I'm scared to take time off because I don't want to get passed by.'

I've worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It's easy. It's not very challenging. It's not fulfilling.

Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.

The danger with genre is playing genre instead of playing the honesty of what's going on.

Doing drama is a very welcome departure from comedy. Although I love doing both, I like to change it up a bit once in a while with roles in serious drama.

I'm not here to joke around or waste time. I want to put my city and country on the map, and I won't stop until I'm at the top.

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on a tour bus. You're in a different town every night; as a kid, you're trying to make friends fast. You try to be funny.

When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.