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"I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler."
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"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."
"I'm not a person who particularly had heros when growing up."
"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."
"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."
"I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up."
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"Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live."
"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 some random old lady or something."
"So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself."
"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."
"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."
"If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition."
"In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?"
"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 funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius."
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