Quotes from Kaitlin Olson

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

I was really shy and kept to the theater department. I was keeping my eyes down when I walked through the halls. So, no nemesis. Not in high school, anyway.

When I was 12, I introduced my mom to Def Leppard's 'Pour Some Sugar on Me.' I told her it was an amazing song, and I remember her not really agreeing with me.

Before 'Sunny' came along, I would audition and do chemistry reads with very funny actors. And then they would cast someone who was beautiful and benign. I don't think that very funny men wanted to headline with very funny women. They wanted to be the funny ones, and they wanted the wife to be the wife. That was very frustrating.

On 'Sunny,' the main actors are adults, and we're all friends, and we all have the same sense of humor, so there's a lot of improvising.

On 'Sunny,' we're not trying to be a family show. We're literally trying to make the funniest show possible.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

In 'Finding Dory,' I play a whale shark named Destiny who can't swim very well. We're both extremely clumsy!

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

On 'The Mick' we want to make the funniest family show possible, but maybe pushing the boundaries of which family members you want to be watching - some kids will be too young for it.

I'd do a really good job playing Trisha Yearwood.

I love 'Overboard!' That's such a great movie, and it's one of the first movies where it co-stars a man and a woman, and they are both equally funny. That's a very rare thing.

That's what I love doing - finding ways to make a personality as extreme as you can before it starts to get goofy.

I like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want to come across as a cartoon.

Figure out what you do the most in your day, then put your money toward those kinds of clothes. If I'm spending a big part of my day driving my kids to and from preschool, I'll buy loungewear or workout clothes that I feel good in.

I got lucky: I love my in-laws.

It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of 'shut up' after I say anything. But it's all out of love.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

My children have trained me well for multitasking.

It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are my comedic influences. I like a lot of dudes, too, like Bill Murray and Will Ferrell.

Junior high and elementary school, those girls were so, so mean to me.