“I grew up in a family that went to church every Sunday and then I went...” — Edi Patterson Quote

“I grew up in a family that went to church every Sunday and then I went to youth group during the week and covered dish suppers and stuff like that.”

“My only experience with the megachurch oeuvre was a show called 'A Current Affair,' and they would sometimes put clips on of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. I was very fascinated with them. Not in, 'Oh, I want to go to their church.' But she had so much makeup and their thing was so theatrical. They tapped into the theater-loving side of me.”

“Yes, you write your own sketches at The Groundlings. If you want to create a character, you write a sketch where you're playing that character. You write on your own and with others. It's an intense process, and when you're doing a Main show you're writing on your own and meeting up with people to write all the time.”

“I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.”

“I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.”

“For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.”