Rudolph: "I feel like I'm a drag queen."

Rudolph: "I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny."

Rudolph: "I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry."

Rudolph: "Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady."

Rudolph: "I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet."

Rudolph: "I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me."

Rudolph: "I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that."

Rudolph: "You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'"

Rudolph: "Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion don'ts in my day."