Abbi Jacobson Quotes

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Abbi Jacobson

Profession : Comedian

Birth : February 1, 1984

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

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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.

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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

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

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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.

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I would love, obviously, someone like Gloria Steinem to do anything with me. We would obviously have to get lunch after, and she'd have to sign stuff for me.

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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.

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

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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.

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

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

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Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

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

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I will say that a lot of art, some of the best art, has very powerful and meaningful messages behind it, and the more you read the stuff on the walls, the more you learn the artist's intention, and you have a totally new point of view of what it's about.

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I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They're not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways.

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I'm a big Sephora fan.

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Before 'Broad City,' I had a lot of jobs that I knew were not for me, but when you're young and don't know exactly what you're going to do, if an opportunity comes up, you feel like, 'This is an opportunity; I have to try it.'

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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.

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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.

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