Rachel Dratch quotes:

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

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

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

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.

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.

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.

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

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.

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

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

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

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.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.

When I was little, we used to have Atari.

And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

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.

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

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

I didn't consider myself a huge baby person. I`m not like, "Oh my god! I want to hold every baby!" And some women just have that engraved in their minds.

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.

I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

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

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.

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.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.