- Nov 07, 2020
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- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my degree in rhetoric.
- Film Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the freedom of voice-over and the ability to play multiple characters I could never play in real life: a hot young woman, a little boy.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox, so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain.
- Breed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an outsider helps breed comedy.
- Different Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in romance, and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce. It's like, with 'Getting On,' a lot of people say, 'I don't want to watch that. It's so dark.' But you can't just want to go to weddings and children's birthday parties. You've got to witness it all.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Getting On' is just the coolest experience ever, and working with people like Laurie Metcalf, that's the joy. That's what I love about it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still get very uncomfortable and flushed on the street if somebody recognizes me or stops me. I don't know what to say. It's uncomfortable and strange.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want pictures of my kids anywhere. I don't tweet pictures of my kids. I don't put them on any social media. I definitely do like to keep some privacy that way. And mostly, it's fear-based; people are crazy.
- Comic Relief
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was kind of the comic relief in my household. We had a chronic illness in the family. And so, a lot of emergency room visits, and my role was to be silly and add levity, and we're Jewish. So every Passover is a performance. You kind of learn to role play and do voices at the Passover Seder.
- Lonely
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stand-up's hard. It's one of the hardest things in the world, and it's really lonely.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, you create your own ideas.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm terrible at learning lines. I'm good at learning lines when I don't have to be word-perfect.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never became a road comic.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020