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.

Kaitlin Olson

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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.

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

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being-me sake mean

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.

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lucky parent thinking

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

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

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

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simplest sometimes

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.

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

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absolutely-nothing be-good sports

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

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

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I'm not really the sex symbol type.

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symbols type sex

She is definitely a person who is in control but the thing that is so fun about this character is she is out of her element, so she is constantly struggling to get back on top and win and figure this whole thing out.

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It’s very surreal. It’s really interesting, i ca n’t wrap my head around it … My parents are going crazy … My friends at home and parents couldn't be prouder. It’s a dream.

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entertainment

I got lucky: I love my in-laws.

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in-laws got lucky love

I love football.

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i-love love football

My children have trained me well for multitasking.

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well me multitasking children

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.

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I was really shy.

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really shy

I liked making people laugh. I remember that specifically, being really young and having my parents being in the audience and laughing. It wasn't really a 'Oh, I'm the center of attention' feeling; it was more 'Oh, I'm making them so happy right now' feeling. I liked that.

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I feel like people only want to hear me say funny things. Like, I don't tweet about my kids or being a mom, ever, because I'm very aware that that's annoying for people to hear.

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