Judy Gold

I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family.

I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.

Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking.

I've done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was my peers. Now I go onstage, and I could be their mother.

When Joan Rivers walked through the curtain on 'The Tonight Show,' nobody in my house was allowed to utter a sound. Her gait was full of pep and purpose and her voice unmatched.

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

If I was married to a man, and I had the same life situation that I have, it's the perfect recipe for a sitcom.

I always dreamed of living in N.Y.C.

I started taking all these cooking classes. I learned a lot in them, but you think you're going to retain it, and you don't. Under the pressure, it's hard to retain everything.

I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.

I love the vulgar. I kind of have the humor of a 17-year-old boy.