PAULA PELL

Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.

At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.

I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

I was always a bit of a class clown.

I think, as a woman, you have to really make sure that you're taking care of yourself and make sure that you're covered and you have enough material written for you.

Twitter is really - I got very addicted to it just because it's so simple, and it's like a video game for comedy writers to just do a one-liner about something.

Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.

My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.

Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay up for two days and make cinnamon toast and watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon and laugh and cry.

All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.

I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.

I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.

I'm a plus-size person, so when I tried to go into the Gap, I used to just walk out of there shaking my head because they have nothing that fits me.

I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.

It's easy to trick yourself into thinking something's funnier than it is.

I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.

Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.

I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.

I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.

I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'

My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.