KAITLIN OLSON

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

I love football.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

I'm not really the sex symbol type.

I love 'Overboard!' That's such a great movie, and it's one of the first movies where it co-stars a man and a woman, and they are both equally funny. That's a very rare thing.

That's what I love doing - finding ways to make a personality as extreme as you can before it starts to get goofy.

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of 'shut up' after I say anything. But it's all out of love.

My children have trained me well for multitasking.

Junior high and elementary school, those girls were so, so mean to me.

Figure out what you do the most in your day, then put your money toward those kinds of clothes. If I'm spending a big part of my day driving my kids to and from preschool, I'll buy loungewear or workout clothes that I feel good in.

I was really shy.

I'm never going to understand what Middle America wants, because I'm on a show that Middle America doesn't necessarily like but I think is really funny.

The greatest relationships are often the unexpected ones.

Before 'Sunny' came along, I would audition and do chemistry reads with very funny actors. And then they would cast someone who was beautiful and benign. I don't think that very funny men wanted to headline with very funny women. They wanted to be the funny ones, and they wanted the wife to be the wife. That was very frustrating.

I like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want to come across as a cartoon.