AMY SEDARIS

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.

I live in the moment.

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

I swear I want to be a food model.

I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.

I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off.

I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.'

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

I always knew I didn't want kids, and I didn't want to get married.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

People that know me know that I cook. I cook every night.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.

I like working with the public, and I like that it's really hard work.

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.

I am an aging Girl Scout.

I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.