Alex Borstein

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

Every comic is really a frustrated rock star.

If you believe in romance, and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce. It's like, with 'Getting On,' a lot of people say, 'I don't want to watch that. It's so dark.' But you can't just want to go to weddings and children's birthday parties. You've got to witness it all.

Getting On' - that show, it broke my heart. It really was like the greatest love of my life. I'm forever changed by it.

I love the freedom of voice-over and the ability to play multiple characters I could never play in real life: a hot young woman, a little boy.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

My uncle is a hemophiliac, and my brother is one as well. I am a carrier, and it's a disease that my kids also deal with. It's something that has affected my family and I for so long, and I think it's actually what drove me to comedy as a means to cope during tough times.

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.'

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

People who have picture-perfect upbringings and lives tend not to be funny. I don't think they write from a position of pain.