Top 20 Karen Kilgariff Quotes

Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk about these things but not have to feel somber about it and not feel guilty that you’re not feeling somber about it – I think that’s what appeals to me.

I think most people’s conversations are as light as they are dark. That’s how life is.

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she’d always be like, ‘But what if you went to college and you got a degree?’ She’d try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn’t have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.

I think there are lots of those moments when we meet people – listeners at a meet-and-greet – and they tell us that they’ve changed their major to forensic science, or criminal justice, or they’ve become a victim’s advocate.

I think sometimes it’s only by talking about what’s really going on that you can make it less scary.

I want to talk about the things that people don’t think you’re allowed to talk about.

I turned down a job when I was broke to the point that I was about to go into foreclosure on my house, but I didn’t want to work on the job because of the content of the show.

We all feel anxious at times and acknowledging that only helps.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

I think women believed for a long time that it was inappropriate for them to be interested in true crime. It made them judge themselves, or feel weird or ghoulish.

Any therapist can give you the expertise of their education, but we all know there’s that person in our lives that’s been like, ‘Hey, one time I did this thing,’ and that will stay with you for so much longer than the stuff that probably should, because it’s from direct experience.

Santa Barbara’s gorgeous. It’s just a perfect little getaway.

True crime has always been popular.

I had to host a comedy show the day after 9/11, and I really knocked it out of the park. But that was before the Internet really took off, so the only people that know are the people who were there.

Writing about our mistakes turns the stupid stuff we’ve done and cringed over for years into a sort of do’s-and-don’ts guide for others. Actually, more of a don’ts-and-don’t guide.

We’re in no way crime journalists or professionals really.

There’s nothing better than a personal story.

True crime is not for everybody.

I don’t know the States.

We get some great gifts. Trophies, very funny things, one woman even made a diorama of us sitting recording the podcast.