Quotes from Lauren Ash

Often I feel powerless when I hear stories about animals in shelters across the country whose lives are taken simply because they have no safe place to call home, but raising funds through Strut Your Mutt helps people help these pets.

Being in the public eye and seeing yourself on film and in photographs, that can be tough.

My 2019 resolution was that I was only going to speak positively about my body and my looks, both to myself and publicly and to others. It's the one resolution I've been able to keep my entire life. It has changed my life. It has changed how I see myself.

I am a rule follower. I think rules are there for a reason. I don't like breaking them.

I adopted my dog Fox when he was 5 years old. He had been in foster care for months and was passed over at countless adoption fairs before we met and fell in love.

I think that most people have experienced a relationship in their life - whether it be romantic, friendships, family, whatever - where there's somebody who you just really, really idolize. You just want them to feel the same way about you so bad that you kind of miss the red flag that maybe this person isn't super healthy for you.

Working on 'Superstore' has been extremely creatively fulfilling for me.

It was my third Second City review before I even got mentioned in the review. It was the third review where it finally was like, 'And Lauren Ash is here.' Thank God, it's about time!

I read a lot of scripts at the beginning of 2015.

As somebody who works in comedy, I gravitate to the very serious, dramatic things in my consumption of media.

I'm Canadian, and I'm here on a green card, so I feel like what would scare me most is that I would be deported.

I was never a rebel or anything like that early on.

I don't think anybody's so cool that it's like, 'I've never had my heart broken.' Like, c'mon, that's crap.

I can look around a room and tell you if there are hidden cameras or not.

There is no cure for PCOS so it's all about how to make living with it as tolerable as possible.

But, Superstore has always done an amazing job of reflecting real life situations and challenges.

Doing improv regularly forces you to be better almost without trying.

Usually when it's the holidays and you're gonna be doing a lot of eating, it's because you're celebrating with people. I think that's the thing to focus on.

I think most humans have experienced a time in their life where they were deeply in love, whether it's romantic or familial or friendship love, with someone who didn't feel the same way back.

At the end of the day, life is too short to worry.

It's important to remind and show kids that no matter what you look like, yeah, there's a place for every one of you.

I've never had a job for six years. It's such an immense amount of time in your life.

Some of the people I've met in those first few weeks of even trying improv classes are still my friends now - 15, 17 years later.

Improvising with Mark McKinney, my childhood guru, is a dream.