Quotes from Molly Shannon

I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys.

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

I used to watch 'SNL' when I was babysitting, after I put the kids to bed. It was the Gilda Radner and Bill Murray era. I loved it.

I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

I guess I have a positive attitude about divorce because I have some friends who've gotten divorced, and I'm like, 'Well, if it's better, then - good!'

Without a doubt, the worst part of being a mom is having to floss my kids' teeth every night. It's so tedious.

When I see a mom embarrassed because her kid is having a temper tantrum, I'm like, 'Please! Do you think I've never gone through that?' Women tend to be too hard on themselves.

When I was 12, my friend and I tried to sneak onto a plane from my hometown of Cleveland to New York City! My dad encouraged us - he was a wild guy, big on jokes.

My dad was a real fun guy, and despite his personal problems, he was a great father. It wasn't easy, but he did a good job of raising my sister Mary and I all by himself.

In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

I like both movies and TV, so I don't have some big grand plan.

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

I really love having lots of down time with my kids.

There was a period where I stopped auditioning because I was like, 'I don't have the heart.' There's just so much rejection.

The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.

Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.

She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges ahead despite all of that. I think that's encouraging. She's got some problems, but she has hope and tries to plow through things. I think that's a good role model.

I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.

I lead a very normal life. I'm just so happy being a mother that everything else revolves around that. If a movie falls through or a TV show doesn't get picked up, I'm pretty easygoing about it because I'm just like, 'Yay, I get to be with my kids more!'

I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.

I went to NYU drama school, so I was a very serious actress. I used to do monologues with a Southern accent, and I was really into drama and drama school. And then, in my last year of drama school, I did a comedy show, and the show became a big hit on campus.