Paula Pell

“It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.”

“I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.”

“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.'”

“I'm a late bloomer, so I'm going to embrace it all.”

“I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.”

“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 thin...”

“My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.”

“At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things li...”

“I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.”