Quotes from Paula Pell

Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.

I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

I was always a bit of a class clown.

I was half Catskills comedian, half 1800s matron.

I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.

I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

You're under the gun at all times because it's live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you're having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh - which is terrifying... People are filing into the audience, and you're writing a new joke for the end of it.

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I'm really pushing myself to do these new projects. It's scary as hell, but it's fun to have other things to keep my creative brain cooking.

I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold '70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.

I'm a plus-size person, so when I tried to go into the Gap, I used to just walk out of there shaking my head because they have nothing that fits me.

I've always loved the use of the word 'thick' when it comes to heavy because it's always a positive thing.

I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.

It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.

Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.

Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay up for two days and make cinnamon toast and watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon and laugh and cry.

At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.

I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.

I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.

My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.

My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.