For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

Kate Micucci

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I think that in performing, everybody's path is so so different, that there's nobody where I think, "Oh my god, that's exactly what happened to me."

Kate Micucci

different path thinking

I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.

Kate Micucci

style hair looks

There have been times where I lost a job or whatever, and I think, "Okay, well that's just not part of my lane."

Kate Micucci

lost jobs thinking

The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

Kate Micucci

lesson think me heart

I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.

Kate Micucci

picture stress home school

At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.

Kate Micucci

know you comedy fun

I started playing the ukulele in the year 2000. That sounds so futuristic saying it like that. The year 2000.

Kate Micucci

playing saying year like

I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

Kate Micucci

toy act make designer

There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.

Kate Micucci

city new know moments

I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

Kate Micucci

parents good calm children

My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

Kate Micucci

good work teacher love

I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.

Kate Micucci

best thought comedy time

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Kate Micucci

fish animals shoes song

It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

Kate Micucci

control good you art

I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.

Kate Micucci

know women love funny

There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was so confused. I was like, 'Wait a second, what is Dorothy doing in this movie?' And that's when I became fascinated. I didn't realize there were actors.

Kate Micucci

realize wait doing confused

I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.

Kate Micucci

singer never thought myself

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.

Kate Micucci

will doing always way

When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

Kate Micucci

paintings up you buying

I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.

Kate Micucci

really karaoke shy