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  • Actress
  • born 1984
  • 59 quotes

Abbi Jacobson, an actress (born 1984), is quoted 59 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Broad, Middle School, Okay and Philadelphia.

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I always have a good pen with me.

I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

If anything can be art, then anyone can be an artist.

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

I used to not be into the fancy ones. I used to eat goo balls all the time.

I find the most normal things about famous people to be the most fascinating.

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

Cereal when high is always a great option. I don't even have cereal for that reason.

When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.

I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

Everything on 'Broad City' that my character has drawn is my stuff from years and years ago.

I would love to be at a place where a girl character can also be a role model for young boys.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

Museums are interesting. This place where we're almost buying admission to take a break from our lives.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.

Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.

Every show that comes out that's female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it's taking over.

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.

I had this job where I had to cold call people, and that was terrifying to me, and that was on a far different level than invading their space.

We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

I think that Ruth Bader Ginsburg needs, like, a pump-up. And I think Jock Jams is a classic pump-up. Like before she starts working, she needs that.

I find young people talk about what they want to do, which is great because you get to form the words, but its also like, you gotta just get in there.

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

It's very natural and simple to me, drawing, because I've drawn since I was a kid. It's just the most normal thing for me to do. And it's very meditative.

I would love, obviously, someone like Gloria Steinem to do anything with me. We would obviously have to get lunch after, and she'd have to sign stuff for me.

I am obsessed with the painter Jonas Wood, but I don't think I'll ever be able to afford one of his paintings. He's an L.A.-based painter; his stuff is incredible.

I really admire people that do more than one thing. That's sort of the goal, right - to be an artist that can work in any medium. That's what I hope for my career.

I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.

Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan.

I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I.

What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh.

I'm from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It's also the only time I have vacation.

I definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends.

I think being compassionate of each other's lives and issues is nonnegotiable when it comes to friendships. We're all going through different stages and issues, and as I get older, I'm trying to lean into that.

I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

Before 'Broad City,' I had a lot of jobs that I knew were not for me, but when you're young and don't know exactly what you're going to do, if an opportunity comes up, you feel like, 'This is an opportunity; I have to try it.'

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