American - Actress | September 16, 1964 -
I like both movies and TV, so I don't have some big grand plan.
Molly Shannon
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When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.
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Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.
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I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.
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I think I'm a really hard worker, and I feel like my attitude is to just enjoy the process of being creative and developing and 'just throw a bunch of stuff against the wall and see what sticks.'
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I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.
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I'm very driven by writing. Coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' because it's such a writing job, and we all write our parts on the show and create characters, I'm so respectful of good writing.
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I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered where I've been like, 'I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me.' I don't want to do something if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.
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I lead a very normal life. I'm just so happy being a mother that everything else revolves around that. If a movie falls through or a TV show doesn't get picked up, I'm pretty easygoing about it because I'm just like, 'Yay, I get to be with my kids more!'
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If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.
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I had to babysit a lot when I was in high school, and I missed a lot of parties. I felt this longing, like, 'Oh no, I'm going to miss meeting the love of my life at that party!' I feel like that's very Mary Katherine Gallagher.
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There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.
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