American - Actress | May 2, 1980 -
I can't do impressions.
Ellie Kemper
Impressions
I want to be a morning-talk-show host. I love Kelly Ripa's job. She gets to live in New York and has this amazing job hosting a talk show.
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I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show.
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I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.
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It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is. In terms of formal schooling - I feel like that's a nineteenth century term - but in terms of where you went to high school or college, or wherever, all that really is irrelevant, I have found, in comedy.
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Improv is mostly what I've studied.
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I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.
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Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'
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I guess it's easier to think badly and then be pleasantly surprised.
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One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.
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In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
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Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.
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