Frankly, 'Bride Wars' got made because movies with women need to be about weddings and love.
— Casey Wilson
What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and, to me, hilarious.
Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.
My parents are both super funny, and I always knew I wanted to be on 'SNL.' My mom and I would watch it a lot.
The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.
On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything.
I didn't have the greatest ride on 'SNL,' but I always felt support from gay fans, which made me feel accepted within a place I didn't feel totally accepted.
Pageants are already ridiculous and sad, I think.
When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.
I love the idea of someone getting knocked down repeatedly, but they still believe in love.
When you're on a road trip, anything goes.
I'm in therapy, and I think everyone should be.
I don't love to fail.
Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'
My dad's cool. He is socially liberal.
New York is hard living. It's fun living, but it's hard.
When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.
The alternative comedy scene is actually pretty small, I guess.
The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone - which to the studio means that the specificity and uniqueness must be watered down. But I think mass audiences like things that are more specific and tend to have a voice, like 'Napoleon Dynamite' or 'Superbad.'
I'll take discrimination if it's in my favor!
I think the key to working with my husband is that collaboration in comedy is best.
I want to see a ton more comedy for women.
My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but he also worked at the electrical plant, so he was this complicated guy with a big laugh who would wear a trucker hat and do impressions. He was gay, but to me, Uncle Alan was just the funniest person in the world.
You can't always tell if someone's gay over Twitter, but when he's talking to you about 'Real Housewives,' it's probably OK to assume.
I've started meditating, but I do have a quick temper.
I've always been very animated.
I actually do enjoy the Kardashians' show, and I know that other people do enjoy it, but at the same time, they want to make fun of it. Like, I know that girls are watching that show - I'm just the only one courageous enough to say it. Other people are courageous in acts of war, but I'm courageous in my love for the Kardashians.
It's always great to get to do what you love and to do something that hopefully people will see and love.
If you can have a laugh with someone, you're then in each other's world.
The comedian just wants to get a laugh.
I took a clown class at NYU - that's where I met June Diane Raphael, my writing partner and best friend.
Not everyone is married at 25 and taken care of.
I still am not a size two - I don't think I could get there if I wanted to.
I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.
I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.
The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
You only feel as good as your last sketch.
I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.
I can never turn my creativity off.
There are sometimes concerns about being respectful with a gay character, and you either end up with a tiptoeing quality or an all-out cliche.
I love Nene Leakes, of course.
At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.
I'm getting into all sorts of L.A. things. I go to bikram yoga, I went to an astrologer recently... I'm accepting L.A. for who she is. She's a dark temptress.
Especially with Facebook and Instagram and Twitter, I can't tell necessarily the nitty gritty of what you're really up to. I'm just seeing the performance of all the work you're doing and the look you're giving; it's very hard to get to the center. It's very hard to see what's what.
If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.
With agents, I've learned to bring them into the process when I feel confident. You're the only one that can really know what's right for your career. You're on a wing and a prayer through most of it.
I think there's almost nothing that I won't, sadly, do for a laugh. It's a problem, actually.
I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.
Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.
Posturing is funny to me.
