At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight. – Allison Tolman
It’s interesting to play a female character who’s not ever using feminine wiles to get things done. – Allison Tolman
My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, ‘Now I’m happy. Now I’m sad.’ – Allison Tolman
I read the ‘Fargo’ hashtag and what people tweeted at me and every article and every comment on every article. I really just ate it up. But I wasn’t prepared for hearing what everybody thought of me. – Allison Tolman
As a newcomer, you know, you don’t come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland. – Allison Tolman
I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for ‘Fargo.’ One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, ‘We’re going to make a graph.’ And I was like, ‘Alright, nerds.’ – Allison Tolman
It’s scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time. – Allison Tolman
I’m from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes. – Allison Tolman
I’m hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good. – Allison Tolman
I originally wanted to stay in Chicago as long as I could. I love Chicago. I don’t love L.A. I don’t want to leave Chicago. – Allison Tolman
I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle. And I have since now found a New York where if I lived there now, I know where I would want to live. – Allison Tolman
When I first got out of school, I went on a children’s theater tour, and I went around the country a little bit that fall, and it was the first time I went to Chicago. We spend a couple of days in Chicago, and I was really struck viscerally by the city. – Allison Tolman
I’m aware me getting a role out of Chicago as a complete unknown is an insane anomaly, so I knew I’d have to get out here to L.A. as soon as the door opened. – Allison Tolman
Improv training allows you to get out of your head a little bit and take more risks, which is something I would like to continue to improve upon. – Allison Tolman
I haven’t been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable. – Allison Tolman
As a comedian who’s used to, like, punching the jokes, it’s hard to teach yourself that that’s not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back. – Allison Tolman
I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle. – Allison Tolman