Quotes

An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

It feels very cool to be part of a girl gang.

I was a religious 'SNL' watcher all through middle school. I was obsessed with Molly Shannon, Ana Gasteyer, Cheri Oteri - they were on right when I found the show. Then I started watching the older episodes, and it just totally blew my mind that my dream show already existed.

Most days, we don't get to the 'SNL' studio until noon. On Monday, we pitch the host, and that's our shortest, lightest day. Tuesday is our longest day - some people don't leave until Wednesday night. It's just a long, long day.

I have no time for being embarrassed.

I just want to be myself, and I really, like, can't say I'm sorry for it. I just can't.

I want to feel like I can dance or party all night and not be worried about people stepping on my dress.

I'm not big on fuzzy or fleecy slippers. I just don't like the texture and the heat. It just gets to be too much.

I don't take well to rules.

There's no conversation happening between plus-size women and designers. The door is never open.

I've never shown up to the set of 'SNL' or 'Girls' without having a million options for me to try on. They don't bat an eye at my body or how to dress me because they dress all kinds of bodies as costumers.

I shop almost exclusively online, from brands like Eloquii, ASOS, Elizabeth Suzann, or Rachel Comey, if one of their straight-size pieces has a little extra room.

I know seeing bigger women looking great would have mattered to me when I was younger - that's why I try not to wear a black dress every day.

Every morning when I wake up, I listen to 'The Brian Lehrer Show' on WNYC.

It's really fun to play someone with no filter but who is also really good at what she does.

Shooting in Japan was one of the best working experiences of my entire life.

I think it's a different experience for plus-size women in film and television to get clothes for events. It's just not as welcoming for us to get cool clothes that are, like, equal in glamour, in style, to what, I am going to say, 'small size' co-stars get to wear.

When I was hired to 'SNL,' I was 25 years old.

I am young, and I am cool, and I want to wear cool clothes!

I did theater summer camps when I was a kid, and I enjoyed them, but they never felt quite right. But then there would always be a tiny improv workshop towards the end of camp, and I would always feel like I liked it so much better.