“Anytime I audition for something, it’s always a question of whether or not the people I’m auditioning for understand I’m an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who’s going to do what’s written.”

” What do you mean? What you mean is that they want to look back in history. And so I think it’s only natural for entertainment to reflect that.

For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of ’90s grunge – if you got it now, you would think it was the ‘Singles’ soundtrack.

I love Obama. He’s my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.

I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on Episodes.

You kind of have to learn how to adapt yourself, and I felt a really powerful way to do that was to make people laugh.

And then you’ll consume them however you can. For example, I don’t really watch Showtime, but I bought ‘Homeland,’ and I’ve been watching every episode on my iPad.

I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

That’s what I think is important to remember now and when you hear that slogan, “Make America great again.”

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy.

I think it’s pretty classic if you look at the way entertainment reflects the country’s status.

You ever spent eight hours acting in water?

I am open to doing anything.

I think it’s important that we remind everybody that America was never great in itself. It’s been great in its aspirations.

There’s a common misconception with sketch comedy that you just go up there and wing it, but it’s written, and there really is order.

I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.

So for the last two years we’ve been hearing, “Make America great again.” People go, “Well, America was never great.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn’t get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn’t get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

I’ve been auditioning since I was 7 years old.

When I am not auditioning or meeting people, I teach myself dance.

In L.A., I’m twice the size – height and everything else – of most of the other actresses who are going for an audition.

I was not a girl who grew up buying $100 candles. I was the girl who ran out of gas on her way to an audition.

My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.

I’m proud of everything I achieved with ‘Idol,’ and away from ‘Idol’ also. It’s just such a different show now to what it was when I was on it. I didn’t even know it was a TV show until the third audition.

I’m down to act a little bit – go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.