"This woman with all these pressures happening around her, and she’s interested in my weekend. She’s one of those people — and I’ve met a lot of people where my bubble has been burst — but she’s actually someone that people can look up to. Even if they know her, they still look up to her."

"I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they still work. The women, though, they’re all ‘crazy.’ I have a suspicion — and hear me out, because this is a rough one — that the definition of “crazy” in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore."

Aubrey is a smart woman who likes a good dumb joke, and she’s a spicy little mama who plays hard. I adore her. | Amy Poehler on Aubrey Plaza

I don’t know what makes Amy funny but she is the funniest person I’ve ever worked with, ever in my life. She’s my comedy hero. I came from the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre, I trained there at the theatre she started, so being around her on set is a dream come true. | Aubrey Plaza on Amy Poehler

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"She was quite round, in a lovely, turn-of-the-century kind of round—that beautiful, Rubenesque kind of beauty. She wore things that didn’t match. She used to wear crazy boots. She would wear just a lot of knee-length frumpy dresses with thrift-store sweaters and kind of what was comfortable. It still looked kind of cool on her. I used to get all my suits in thrift stores, because I realized I was the size of little old men who were dying. We bonded over hot veal sandwiches and their appreciation of sarcastic humor and Garry Shandling shows."

"When faced with sexism or ageism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question:”Is this person in between me and what do I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you."

"You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it."

"People no longer think my name is Maya Fey or Amy Rudolph or Tina Rudolph. They think I’m the Lady who Pooped in the Street, so that’s always nice."

“I disagree that talented people are nice to be around. No. I’m serious. Especially when they’re number one on the call sheet. It’s the truth. Most of time when someone is really talented and they’re the top dog actor, the first name that comes up on the screen, basically, Amy’s position on this, they’re not always nice. And the fact that you are, and the fact that you made everybody feel good, and you always laugh at jokes, I’ve never seen you in a bad mood, it all rolls down hill. This whole family vibe and everyone getting along well, it comes from you. It has always come from you.” - Chris Pratt

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"Kristen Wiig is … quirky and nerdy and, like, ‘I’m a fucking sexbomb but also the funniest person you’ve ever met.’ And I worship her for that."

• WIIG: People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don’t normally do, but I think that’s just a natural thing for artists. It’s like, “Okay, I did that, and now I want to try this.” I mean, people get so surprised when I say I want to do a dramatic film. They can’t wrap their heads around it.

“It’s just such a tangled-up issue, the way women present themselves — whether or not they choose to put their thumbs in their panties on the cover of Maxim and judge each other back and forth on it. It’s a complicated issue, and we didn’t go much further on saying anything other than to say, ‘Yeah, it’s a complicated issue and we’re all kind of figuring it out as we go.’” [x]

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"I get worried for young girls; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled."

"It’s hard if you’re both a writer and an actor, because you’re supposed to be all healthy when you’re an actor, but if you’re writing, you got to eat the most disgusting stuff you can find. The most disgusting stuff I’ve eaten was at SNL, at 3 in the morning — old, cold Carmine’s meatballs that had been delivered five hours earlier. That’s probably the worst. Old meatballs. Old balls!"

"I think that our show is not only the best comedic ensemble on TV, its the best dramatic ensemble. Fuck it, both."

"In about 10 years, knock on wood, I think we’re going to be embarrassed as a nation about our behavior on [marriage equality]. It’s going to be exactly like what happened in 1970, when people were like, ‘Whoa, 1960 sucked. We should’ve let everyone ride the bus.’"