American - Actress | February 15, 1971 -
I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.
Alex Borstein
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Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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Amy Sherman-Palladino is very funny. She's got just natural timing and comedic instinct. And she writes in a comedic rhythm.
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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.
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Stand-up's hard. It's one of the hardest things in the world, and it's really lonely.
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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.
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As an actor, you create your own ideas.
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The hardest thing in the world to depict dramatically is stand-up.
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I'm terrible at learning lines. I'm good at learning lines when I don't have to be word-perfect.
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