Top 35 Paula Pell Quotes

At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.

Young, handsome men never flirt with me. I get heat from old dudes that run the parking garages.

My specialty at ‘SNL’ was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, ‘Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What’s a better big laugh for this towards the end? What’s a better physical joke in this?’ And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.

I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.

Everyone knows people like that: You’re looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they’re not listening.

Tina Fey is a very old friend of mine, and I adore her.

I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.

I’m a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I’m thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.

I’ve always loved the use of the word ‘thick’ when it comes to heavy because it’s always a positive thing.

Starting probably with Janeane Garofalo and that era of stand-up ladies who were starting to be more brainy and strong and clever, guys started noticing those girls as sexy smart. I always called it smarxy.

I’ve got my foot in ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I’m really pushing myself to do these new projects. It’s scary as hell, but it’s fun to have other things to keep my creative brain cooking.

All the women I’ve grown up with at ‘SNL’ and other areas, and even the women that work with Judd Apatow, all those women are powerful, assertive women that have great material, and they just produce themselves.

I went to a Catholic girls’ school before we moved to Florida when I was 15.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

My sister’s journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.

I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can’t be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.

I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.

Some children challenge themselves to maybe run a marathon or something. I challenged myself to stay up for two days and make cinnamon toast and watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon and laugh and cry.

I grew up where the repercussion of you having an opinion was being ‘cocky,’ or people would be mad at you. And I have finally learnt that it is better for them to be mad at you and disagree than you be so mad at yourself all of the time for not speaking up.

I’m a late bloomer, so I’m going to embrace it all.

I’m obsessed with ‘Rocky.’ We went 13 times to the theater.

If you’re hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something’s funny, and the next day you read it and go, ‘Oh, my God.’

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.

I’d always be loaning my sister money, knowing full well I wasn’t going to get it back. But she had the kids, and that paid me back.

It takes a special kind of family to bathe together in their 40s.

I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern – small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

‘Hudson Valley Ballers’ is just the joy of my life.

You’re under the gun at all times because it’s live TV. A lot of time, between dress and air, you’re having to come with an entire ending to your sketch that gets an even better, bigger laugh – which is terrifying… People are filing into the audience, and you’re writing a new joke for the end of it.

I’ve always felt, even with sketches, that if you don’t care about these people, then it doesn’t matter.

I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.

When I finally finished writing ‘Sisters,’ I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.

My sister was three years older than me, and she was like the stone-cold ’70s fox. I looked like a short Polish farm woman, and so our journals were wildly different.

I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.

I was always a bit of a class clown.

My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.