Quotes from Wendi McLendon-Covey

Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with authority when you have shoulders like that.

Let's face it: families behind closed doors are the funniest thing ever - the way people talk to each other, the way you fight for 30 seconds, and then all of a sudden you're crying. Families are just ripe for comedy.

My skin is hypersensitive, so I use powdered sunscreen by Colorescience. I don't know how I lived without it.

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!

Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

There's nothing wrong with a little self-possession, there's beauty in taking time for yourself just because you feel like it, and there's nothing wrong with not divulging every secret!

Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

I'm a big fan of David Sedaris; I love all his books and have them all on audio and e-reader, in addition to hard copies.

I'm a big fan of Amy Sedaris, and one of her decorating mainstays is to put googly eyes on everything.

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

I grew up in the age of variety shows. 'Flip Wilson,' 'Carol Burnett,' 'Donny and Marie,' and 'Sonny and Cher' - I never missed an episode. These shows had it all: singing, dancing, and sketch comedy. One minute, they're ice-skating with pyrotechnics, the next they're doing a scene on a gigantic set. I just couldn't get enough.

I have terrible chemical allergies, and I'm constantly battling unsightly reactions.

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

The thing about acting is everybody thinks you make a ton of money. And the money is good when you're working. But you can go a long time between jobs.

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

I never wanted to be one of those desperate actors, just waiting for their next gig, who might have to take something that they didn't want to do to pay the rent.

When I finally got a manager and a publicist and blah, blah, blah, sometimes they do things that you don't authorize or maybe tell you information that's incorrect, but you go around repeating it only to find out later that it's not true, and it's very embarrassing.

Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

If I improvise at all on 'The Goldbergs,' it's with the physical stuff.

You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.