Rachel Dratch Quotes

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

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

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

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.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

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

When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

How did I think of that?" I wondered. I didn't feel like I had thought of it. It's a sort of flow that happens when you are completely in the moment and not getting in your own way. Not trying so hard, not planning ahead, just getting out of your own head and letting the magic happen. You could apply this to any activity, of course. You could apply it to life.

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

When we were sprung fro the hos[ital, we waited at the elevator with two other couples, who seemed as dazed and clueless as we were. We were all being set free to care for the tiny creatures and just figure this out on our own. Looking at our faces, I wondered how the human race continues to survive.

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

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.

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

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

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

Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

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

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

I did Second City, and Nia Vardalos also did Second City, so I knew her from there.

isn't telling a girl you just loooooove eating horsemeat one step away from saying you haven't lived 'til you've eaten puppy skewers?

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.