Kristen Johnston

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

I want to play a Disney villainess so badly.

I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller.

When you're that tall, people talk about it all the time.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

I was born in Washington, D.C., and I was raised in Milwaukee.

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

I'd so much rather people think I was funny than pretty.

To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?

And to be different is great. You don't want to be the same.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

I am, uh... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished... for not being anorexic.

I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.

I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run.