Mae Martin Quotes

Mae Martin

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 2, 1987

I'm a real romantic, big time.

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It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.

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We're all severely addicted to our phones... it's not glamorous or always harrowing even, it's just damaging.

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What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

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A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.

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It's very weird trying to imagine yourself as a 'comedy character.'

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I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

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If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

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I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me.

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I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

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In my pantheon of comedy idols there's maybe six people: Lisa Kudrow, Conan O'Brian, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Martin Short. Lisa is at the top.

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It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

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I can't tell you how much money I waste on plaid shirts, whisky that I hate the taste of, and Moleskine notebooks that I never write in.

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I'm so unqualified to be a family therapist.

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I like to do shows that open a dialogue.

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In comedy you are allowed to be weird - and even applauded for it.

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I dropped out of school when I was 14 and I was hanging out with comedians in their thirties. I moved out of home and had some real lows.

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Being on stage at the Soho Theatre is hard to beat.

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How can I tell if I was born hating coconut or developed a hatred of coconut because my father distrusted it as an ingredient?

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Bette Midler was my first love, and the intensity of those feelings remain.

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