Quotes from Aubrey Plaza

If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.

With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.

When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I love great acting, as nerdy as that sounds.

I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.

I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.