Julia Sweeney

Julia: Before you have kids, you think that home is the place where you rest before you go to work, where you work really hard. Now I say home is the place where you're going to work your ass off, and work is where you go to relax.

Julia: (About her most famous character...Pat) Pat was originally inspired by a guy, so I was kind of trying to imitate a guy, and then it became another women and another guy. So if you could divide Pat up, Pat is two men to one woman; but then I am a woman playing Pat, so I say it still comes down 50/50.

Julia: (After her hysterectomy) The doctors said I could still have kids if I have the eggs fertilized in vitro and then find a surrogate, I go, 'Oh, great. Now I have to meet a guy and a girl.'

Julia: (The word "love" means...) To me, it's a word that makes everyone flip out. It's a word that means, Should I say that word back and how much does that word mean? And does it mean something different when you say ''in'' before it, because then it means this drudgery of constantly working on a relationship? Or does it mean delight of being around a certain person whom you also enjoy having sex with? Or does it mean you've known them for 10 years and you've seen them at their worst and their best, and damn it, you're still hanging in there? I'd prefer it if the word didn't exist.

Julia: (about plagiarism) There's a particular sketch show where we know their writers have been to our shows and then we have later seen sketches that were eerily close to things that were on our stage. And I don't know what the solution is. Pepsi came along because of Coke. Pepsi didn't invent cola, but what are you going to do? There are always going to be copycats. And it's a fine line between something that is a similarity and something that is an outright theft.