Kaitlin Olson Quotes

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Kaitlin Olson

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 18, 1975

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

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I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.

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I got lucky: I love my in-laws.

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I have always admired people who are comfortable not being liked because I am the opposite of that. To the point when I was little, it was crippling.

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In 'Finding Dory,' I play a whale shark named Destiny who can't swim very well. We're both extremely clumsy!

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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

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I like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want to come across as a cartoon.

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I'm not really the sex symbol type.

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Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

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The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.

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It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

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You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

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My children have trained me well for multitasking.

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Before 'Sunny' came along, I would audition and do chemistry reads with very funny actors. And then they would cast someone who was beautiful and benign. I don't think that very funny men wanted to headline with very funny women. They wanted to be the funny ones, and they wanted the wife to be the wife. That was very frustrating.

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I was really shy.

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I liked making people laugh. I remember that specifically, being really young and having my parents being in the audience and laughing. It wasn't really a 'Oh, I'm the center of attention' feeling; it was more 'Oh, I'm making them so happy right now' feeling. I liked that.

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