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People used to think of me as a comedy actor.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I was always pretty funny with my friends.

I really fancied myself a comedic actress.

I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.

I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

It's funny, because I was trained as a dramatic actor at New York's Colonnades Theater Lab in the '70s, along with Jeff Goldblum, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. People I worked with there saw a comedian in me. I'm still most at home in comedy.

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

I always had an actor within me.

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.