Quotes from Kaitlin Olson

The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.

I feel like people only want to hear me say funny things. Like, I don't tweet about my kids or being a mom, ever, because I'm very aware that that's annoying for people to hear.

I liked making people laugh. I remember that specifically, being really young and having my parents being in the audience and laughing. It wasn't really a 'Oh, I'm the center of attention' feeling; it was more 'Oh, I'm making them so happy right now' feeling. I liked that.

The greatest relationships are often the unexpected ones.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.