Groundlings Quotes

#1. Sometimes I don't even know what to name a song when I get done with it, and I'll let somebody else tell me what I should call it because it's whatever stuck in their head.

Justin Timberlake

#2. I'm a goofball, so I think comedy is one of my stronger points, as an actor. I just never get to do it. But, I'm taking classes at Groundlings, where Will Ferrell and Lisa Kudrow studied, and it's all improv comedy. It feels good to be able to do that and be funny.

Tinsel Korey

#3. You either walk into your story and own your truth, or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness.

Brene Brown

#4. I come from a theater background. I studied acting at NYU and also the Groundlings in L.A.

Ashley Bell

#5. If it weren't for The Groundlings, I would never be on Saturday Night Live.

Chris Kattan

#6. Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.

Jane Austen

#7. It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, 9 periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very 10 rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the 11 most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable 12 dumb shows and noise. I

William Shakespeare

#8. I really learned how to improvise at the Groundlings.It's something I've always loved to do. For some reason it feels more honest at times.

Jillian Bell

#9. I worked with the Groundlings, doing sketch comedy and improv at a theater here in L.A. It was my hobby, but I took classes and stayed passionate about it because it's what I wanted to do. It just fit. It takes a while before you can actually make money at it. I worked for years.

Fortune Feimster

#10. One of the reasons why I love to do Shakespeare is that this great artist was able to talk to a wide variety of audiences. He could do the bawdy plays and the humor and the clowns-as you know, because you're a wonderful Stephano-that speaks to the populace, the masses, the groundlings, whatever.

Julie Taymor

#11. I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

Rashida Jones

#12. In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

Rachael Harris

#13. I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.

Talal Asad

#14. My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.

Cheryl Hines

#15. 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.

Kaitlin Olson

#16. They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

Anne Tyler

#17. When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.

Christopher Moore

#18. The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

Jon Favreau

#19. I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.

Ryan Reynolds

#20. To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last.
Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

Laini Taylor

#21. The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

Jim Rash

#22. I actually studied with The Groundlings.

Tyra Banks

#23. Although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

Corinne Maier

#24. From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

Lee Hall

#25. Wherever your travels may take you, I hope it's profitable.

Richard Quest

#26. Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

Ryan Hansen

#27. Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

William Shakespeare

#28. In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the comedic timing that you get. When I moved to L.A., I started taking classes with The Groundlings, and I loved it. I'm definitely in love with improv and comedy.

Blake Jenner

#29. Why do the impulsive notions of a would-be do-gooder always translate into the ideals of the next civilization?

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. I take class at the Groundlings, and my personal coach is Lesley Kahn.

Jenn Proske

#31. I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings.

Melissa McCarthy

#32. We have to understand that the closer you get to the corridors of power, to the Oval Office and Congress, the more you become a prisoner of the past .The closer you get to the marginalized, the grassroots and the groundlings, the greater your incentive to think imaginatively and 'outside the box.

Team Colors Collective