Quotes from Abbi Jacobson

I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

I'm really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.

I'm from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It's also the only time I have vacation.

It's very natural and simple to me, drawing, because I've drawn since I was a kid. It's just the most normal thing for me to do. And it's very meditative.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

Everything on 'Broad City' that my character has drawn is my stuff from years and years ago.

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 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.

We live in such a celebrity-driven culture, but all those people have to go buy toilet paper, and all those people have products they use and their favorite sweet treats. They all have to write to-do lists, and they're all reading books - well, hopefully most people are doing those things.

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

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.

You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'

There haven't been a lot of superhero movies with female leads, and there have been even fewer - if any - that were truly funny. I heard Ant-Man was, but I haven't seen that yet. So, that would be my goal, my dream - to be a super-heroine who's not afraid to be feminine and also not afraid to make people laugh.

I really admire people that do more than one thing. That's sort of the goal, right - to be an artist that can work in any medium. That's what I hope for my career.

I would love to be at a place where a girl character can also be a role model for young boys.

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.

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

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.

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.