Abbi Jacobson Quotes

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.
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.'
Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.
Everything on 'Broad City' that my character has drawn is my stuff from years and years ago.
Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.
I always have a good pen with me.
I am obsessed with the painter Jonas Wood, but I don't think I'll ever be able to afford one of his paintings. He's an L.A.-based painter; his stuff is incredible.
I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians.
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.
I didn't go to school for illustration. I did larger pieces, mostly drawings and paintings, and minored in video, but when I moved to N.Y.C., I didn't have a studio space anymore and downsized to my desk and started illustrating. I started a greeting card company and sold cards all over the city.
I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I.
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.
I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
I find the most normal things about famous people to be the most fascinating.
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.
I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
I had this job where I had to cold call people, and that was terrifying to me, and that was on a far different level than invading their space.
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.
I love Maira Kalman. She's an amazing illustrator and writer. I've loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing about, I developed a whole new appreciation. Her work made me observe everything so much deeper and more joyfully.
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