WENDI MCLENDON-COVEY

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

You have to ask yourself if you want to be the kind of actress who's interesting, or the kind of actress who's meant to play the pretty-but-uninteresting wife of a chubby guy on a network sitcom.

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.

You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.

Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.

As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

My skin is super sensitive, so an oil-based cleanser is just perfect, rather than some detergent thing that strips it.

On my keychain, I have a citrine crystal in a tiny cage. It's for protection and good vibes.

My skin is so hypersensitive that I have to cleanse it with oils and then back it up with even more oil. I really am just putting on oil all the time.

When I finally got a manager and a publicist and blah, blah, blah, sometimes they do things that you don't authorize or maybe tell you information that's incorrect, but you go around repeating it only to find out later that it's not true, and it's very embarrassing.

I've never lived in Los Angeles. I've always lived 30 miles away in Long Beach.

Let's face it: families behind closed doors are the funniest thing ever - the way people talk to each other, the way you fight for 30 seconds, and then all of a sudden you're crying. Families are just ripe for comedy.

Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with authority when you have shoulders like that.

I was a theatrical kid, but my parents were overprotective. When I expressed interest in show business, they shut it down.