“I love the idea of characters who don’t follow the norm, especially the norm that we get to see on television and film.” @Starr Ridley

“You never know how the right thing is going to hit you. It could be something that is very studied and that you put all the pieces in a row and sometimes it just comes”

“It's the little things that will contribute to you getting to that point that you want to get to, but you don't even see it in that moment.”

“The truth is the journey is hard and that's what makes the art so good. If it were easy, then it wouldn't make for a good story. I wouldn't have anything good and juicy to put into my characters.”

“One of the main things that I've always remembered from any set that I've been on was, you dictate the experience that you have. Depending on whatever type of situation, however you go into it is what you're going to get out of it.”

“Keep going. Two simple words. Just keep going. Know that no matter how many roadblocks you hit, no matter how many hiccups along the way, keep trucking, keep going.”

“I saw that the creators had all the control. And if I was going to be a young woman with very few choices about what I play, I'd have to become a creator.”

“My big takeaway from all this time is that I really want to work on things that are striving to be excellent, but it doesn't mean they're necessarily striving to be big, important things.”

“You have to live life in order to know how to express it. You need to have all of the ups and downs that life gives you in order to see something on a page and, in some ways, have empathy and an openness for it.”

“People want to hear actors say they want to challenge themselves. I do want to challenge myself, but in a way where I am actually going to have fun. I don’t want to stress myself out because my whole thing is about protecting my mental health in this industry.”

“To me, it's extremely important for our culture to be able to create generational wealth. When I work, that's one hundred to 200 people minimum that get to work and feed their kids.”

“At the end of the day for me, it's always going to be about what we put on screen because that's what we'll be judged on long after we're not here”

“If I wait around my whole life for someone else to give me a job in this industry, I will never have the career that I long for. As I continue to look for work, I need to find ways to produce work for myself and for my people so we can keep letting people know that we've been here and we will always be here.”

“Know your business and protect your gift.”

“You never know the impact that you're making. I'm so happy that we were able to put a touch on the culture – just a little sprinkle of our love and joy.”

“No one else runs the show but you, and when you know that, it affects performance. The best things are the most natural things and the most real things.”

“As a producer, [I want to] make sure we have the best content, the best writers, and the best show that we could possibly put together but also treat every human that's on that set like they matter and like they're important and like they can be heard. That's really important to me as a producer.”

“I believe standup has complimented my acting and my acting has complimented my standup. I feel very fearless. Just more curious at times, too, when I'm doing both.”

“There was a time where sitcoms weren't being greenlit. It was all about this new way of shooting things – that people were 'too advanced for that type of funny, needed a different type of funny,' etc. – and I think the industry went through a time where they were like, 'Oh no, this is dying.' But I love the fact that the sitcom is slowly coming back.”

People will ask me, "when are you going to lead a show again?" That's not what I'm looking to do right now. They're really shocked my that – how can that not be the pinnacle of all things? – and I have to explain that I did that when I was 12.