Top 40 Rebel Wilson Quotes

In ‘Night At The Museum 3,’ with Ben Stiller, I was only given a couple of lines. If you are in guys’ comedies, it’s not like you are ever going to just get handed some jokes and a brilliant role.

I think some of my darkness comes from my dad. There is definitely convict history on that side of the family, a lot of dodginess. But with the darkness can also come entrepreneurialism, genius traits.

In ‘A Few Best Men,’ I play a lesbian character. I played the lesbian sister of the bride who ends up kissing a dude at the end, but she was, like, a full-on lesbian in that. And I beat out famous Australian lesbians for the role.

I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.

If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I’ve got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

I wrote my own play, ‘The Westie Monologues,’ about where I’m from in Australia, and it was very successful. From that, I started getting offers from television.

I wasn’t an extroverted kid. I was very academic and very introverted.

I never thought I’d be the type of girl who’d be doing, like, fashion shoots.

I love talking in an American accent. Even though it hurts my face after a few hours.

I do notice on Twitter that a lot of girls write to me, and they either say, ‘I want to be your best friend,’ or they say, ‘I have a total girl crush on you.’ I’m like, ‘Awww.’

All my family has very good mathematical abilities – like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school – on any maths exams I’d get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.

Even when I’m playing someone named ‘Fat Amy.’ I’m all about confidence and attitude.

I come from the rougher side of Sydney. I don’t know whether you can compare them to the projects, but in Australia, it definitely is the rougher side.

Because of my filming commitments in America, you have to sign contracts where you can’t change your physical appearance.

Where I come from, out in the suburbs, I didn’t know anyone who was a professional actor. And girls that looked like me? No girls like that were on TV.

Up until the age of 12, I went to dog shows every weekend. Mum showed beagles. It’s a really competitive and eclectic world filled with characters who wear interesting outfits – similar to ‘Toddlers & Tiaras,’ but with dogs.

I’m constantly moving and constantly travelling, and so it’s really hard to maintain a relationship in that kind of environment.

‘A League of Their Own’ had some special meaning for me, I guess – it’s about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there’s drama and struggles. I’m really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.

As a kid, I never thought I’d be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy – bordering on social disorder shy – and I was really academic.

When I was just a girl in Sydney, no one thought, ‘Oh, she’s going to be a movie star.’ No one. I had to get by with actual skill and talent.

I was in an a cappella group in high school.

People ask if my parents are hippies, but they’re actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that’s where my name came from.

I had a great career in Australia, so it was a hard decision to move to America. But in 2010, I was asked to audition for the part Melissa McCarthy ended up playing in ‘Bridesmaids.’

Sometimes my mum is very disapproving of my comedy.

I went to a Christian high school, so I went under my middle name. I don’t think they would have accepted me in the school – ‘This is Rebel’… so I have two middle names, Melanie Elizabeth, and I went under those. But Rebel’s way cooler.

When you’re a kid, you don’t want to be teased.

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

At school, nobody thought I was smart and I became smart. Nobody wanted to be my friend and then I had lots of friends.

I do acting for the awards… and cash money.

I don’t think I could ever go skinny. I just don’t think, physiologically, that is going to happen. I do eat healthily for a week, and then I go, ‘Nah, they have these beautiful ice-cream sandwiches.’ I don’t think my emotional eating is ever going to change.

When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it’s really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.

I like to have the stamina to work 16 hours a day. I may eat a lot, but I am very healthy.

People think you’re really confident because you’re an actress or whatever, but I’m, like, the worst. Although the good thing about being recognizable is that people approach me, which is good.

Most people who know me know I’m not switched on all the time. I don’t like to be like that in real life, because it’s draining.

I was sporty in high school. I played tennis and hockey, and was basketball captain. Then I went to university and stopped doing sport and started eating ice cream.

What they do in America in all those sitcoms is hire glamorous girls and they’re never that funny… that’s because they’ve never had to develop a personality because they’re hot.

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of ‘SNL.’ I would write and perform all of my characters.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it’s too disruptive.

I’ll often use my real stuff in my writing because it comes across as more authentic.

I love rapping. I do. My styling’s similar to Missy Elliott – I think she’s so dope. In a weird way, that’s how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.