Rachel Dratch Quotes

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.

I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy. But, I think I look too jewish for the prairie.

In theater, it's just you and the audience. It's less of a popularity contest. It's just you and the audience, and they're laughing or they're not laughing, that's the only gauge you really have. But with TV and movies and everything, it's like "Well, did you get a meeting at so-and-so?" and "So-and-so's really hot right now," which is all the stuff I'm probably still not used to.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

If it gets laughs, it’s funny.

I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty girls hang out, but it's not the comedy world as far as I know.

The people, they are the ones with the real answers.

I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I`m not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.

Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.

The environmental agenda seems swept under the rug a lot, and environmentalists are looked at as tree-huggers who aren't dealing with the real issues when in fact someone needs to be keeping an eye on how we're treating the planet. When politicians bring up the environment, they're immediately labeled as being anti-business. But for the sake of the planet on which we live, we need to take the environment into account.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.