Top 30 Abbi Jacobson Quotes

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

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’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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I recently saw this home video where my brother is playing this character Arsenio Grimley, who is a mix of Arsenio Hall and Ed Grimley – which, clearly, is my parents’ doing, because he’s, like, 10. He’s the host, I’m every guest, and then my dad is Elton John. That was a Saturday night.

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.

I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.

I’m really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.

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

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

I didn’t go to school for illustration. I did larger pieces, mostly drawings and paintings, and minored in video, but when I moved to N.Y.C., I didn’t have a studio space anymore and downsized to my desk and started illustrating. I started a greeting card company and sold cards all over the city.

I’m not a political comic.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

We live in such a celebrity-driven culture, but all those people have to go buy toilet paper, and all those people have products they use and their favorite sweet treats. They all have to write to-do lists, and they’re all reading books – well, hopefully most people are doing those things.

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

I’m a big Sephora fan.

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

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.

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.