Paula Pell Quotes
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I think, as a woman, you have to really make sure that you're taking care of yourself and make sure that you're covered and you have enough material written for you.
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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.
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I went to college at University of Tennessee.
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I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.
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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.
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I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.
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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.
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I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.
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I grew up where the repercussion of you having an opinion was being 'cocky,' or people would be mad at you. And I have finally learnt that it is better for them to be mad at you and disagree than you be so mad at yourself all of the time for not speaking up.
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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.
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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.
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I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.
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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.
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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.
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I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.
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Commercials used to have such a serious tone to them or a really corny tone.
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Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.
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I'm obsessed with 'Rocky.' We went 13 times to the theater.
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I'd always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn't going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.
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I went to a Catholic girls' school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.
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Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.
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It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.
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If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'
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I have written before, but I was primarily an actor and improvisational performer.