Top 36 Maya Rudolph Quotes
#1. I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.
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#3. Honestly, because it's my third, I feel like I've been pregnant for like six years, seriously.
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#4. Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.
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#6. When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."
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#7. Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph - when they speak, everyone listens. Because they're freaking hilarious.
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#8. I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
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#9. I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.
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#10. Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.
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#11. I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
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#12. Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.
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#14. I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
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#15. I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.
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#16. I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
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#18. I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.
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#19. Her name is Maya Rudolph! She is a goddamn baby champion and she pushed her cuties out Little House on the Prairie style!
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#20. And in improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as 'Yes And'. The term yes and: to say yes, and not just yes, but to add information. In the adding of information you don't negate the other persons idea - but you build on it.
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#21. I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."
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#22. Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion Don'ts in my day.
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#23. I would love it if you would come in and teach me how to really do you.
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#25. The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.
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#26. I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.
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#27. You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'
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#28. There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.
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#29. To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.
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#30. To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.
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#31. I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.
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#32. If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.
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#33. Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.
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#34. I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.
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#35. I think that people who don't like kids are awful people.
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#36. I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
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