Top 25 Kaitlin Olson Quotes

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are my comedic influences. I like a lot of dudes, too, like Bill Murray and Will Ferrell.

I was really shy and kept to the theater department. I was keeping my eyes down when I walked through the halls. So, no nemesis. Not in high school, anyway.

It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren’t a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

I feel like people only want to hear me say funny things. Like, I don’t tweet about my kids or being a mom, ever, because I’m very aware that that’s annoying for people to hear.

In ‘Finding Dory,’ I play a whale shark named Destiny who can’t swim very well. We’re both extremely clumsy!

I’d just like to be good at sports. I’m extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

I’m very attracted to comedy I don’t see coming.

My children have trained me well for multitasking.

Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

I liked making people laugh. I remember that specifically, being really young and having my parents being in the audience and laughing. It wasn’t really a ‘Oh, I’m the center of attention’ feeling; it was more ‘Oh, I’m making them so happy right now’ feeling. I liked that.

I’m never going to understand what Middle America wants, because I’m on a show that Middle America doesn’t necessarily like but I think is really funny.

I was really shy.

When I post anything at all on Instagram or Twitter, I get hundreds and hundreds of ‘shut up’ after I say anything. But it’s all out of love.

When I was 12, I introduced my mom to Def Leppard’s ‘Pour Some Sugar on Me.’ I told her it was an amazing song, and I remember her not really agreeing with me.

I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn’t feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

I’m drawn to the funny brand of comedy.

On ‘The Mick’ we want to make the funniest family show possible, but maybe pushing the boundaries of which family members you want to be watching – some kids will be too young for it.

The greatest relationships are often the unexpected ones.

I like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want to come across as a cartoon.

Being mean just for being mean’s sake isn’t funny.

I love ‘Overboard!’ That’s such a great movie, and it’s one of the first movies where it co-stars a man and a woman, and they are both equally funny. That’s a very rare thing.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.