Molly Shannon

Molly: I was a leader in grade school, because I went to a small Catholic school. I bossed the girls around. I was very nice, but I was the leader. I'd say 'We're going to play house and I'm going to be the mother, you're going to be the other mother, we're going to pick our kids'. Everybody wanted to be in my family 'cause I was the best mother. In high school, things changed, I wasn't so popular.

Molly: I went to an academically competitive prep school, where the kids all knew one another. It was sort of tough. I didn't really fit in, I used to get obsessed with guys who were unavailable. It was sort of a hard, dark, time for me.

Molly: I was so honored when Lorne Michaels asked me to do a SNL movie, that I said yes immediately, without even knowing anything at all about the project!

Molly: I'm in no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really love comedies, I hope to get back to it.

Molly: Saturday Night Live is not a boy's club at all. I haven't had that experience. It is a tough place for men and women, if you don't have your own charcaters, they'll eat you alive. They don't care if you are a man or a woman, I'll defend that till the day I die.

Molly: After my mother was killed, I withdrew into a different realm, where I made up friends that understood. After awhile I stopped using them, but they were a huge part of the healing process.

Molly: There is an amazing feeling of family on SNL. The castmates take on the feel of your brothers and sisters, and are there to help with the sketches that aren't going so well. They are the ones that laugh their butts off at the end of a great joke as well.

Molly: I used to waitress, and when I would get a grumpy couple, I would go into one of my characters to try out the laugh factor. Sometimes it worked, and broke the ice, sometimes I was left with no tip at all.

Molly: Making How The Grinch Stole Christmas was a utopian experiance. I was surrounded by so much talent, it is more of an ensemble than a movie, Ron Howard is a creative genius.