Top 25 Lauren Lapkus Quotes

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

I’m more of a tomboy – I fall into the jeans-and-a-T-shirt style, for sure – but I have a girlie side to me.

I think that by doing the podcast, I’ve grown to actually enjoy hosting a little more and realize that my role is a bit of a host, even though I thought I was totally avoiding that by creating this construct. But hosting a late night show has never really been a goal of mine in particular, but it could be fun.

It’s like, if you tweet anything about One Direction, you’ll get a lot of hate – immediately. They’re just searching the words and then writing back to anybody who writes about them.

I was invited to do an all-female improv festival in Portland called All Jane, No Dick. The person running it asked me if I had a female improv team, and I just said yes and then figured out who I would want to bring with me. We had such a fun show together that we decided that we should keep doing it.

I love watching ‘The Real Housewives of New York.’ That’s my guilty pleasure. But I don’t even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.

Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you’re doing with your life. It’s good for you, as long as you’re not feeling that way every night.

The secret to podcast success is sticking with it and making it fun for yourself.

I often play characters on TV shows that are more sweet and naive and just kind of puppy-dog eyes, and I don’t think I am like that as a person.

I had always done broader characters, but going to UCB and speaking to my own voice was important for auditioning for TV and film.

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level. They’re not based on anyone I’ve ever met, but they are these extreme versions of something.

I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.

My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think – I guess ‘wild’ is a good word for it. I’m still sweet! But I won’t let anyone walk all over me.

I’m a huge ‘Bachelor’ fan!

Society is really coming to a point where they’re not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are.

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

That’s what’s so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that’s one of the things that makes doing ‘Comedy Bang Bang’ or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

I’m really thankful for my improv background.

I live for watching TV and partying with my book club.

So many of my characters have really crazy physicalities, so it’s really fun to be able to say, like, ‘I’m an elf who’s the size of a dollar bill!’

I definitely get inspired by people who are disgusting on some level.

For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.

I had a teacher who recommended I take improv classes in Chicago – I’m from Evanston, Illinois – so I did improv classes at Improv Olympic, and that kind of opened me up.

Getting to be the ‘weird roommate’ on a sitcom was a dream come true.

I love L.A. and feel attached to this city, but I don’t identify myself as being a part of it.