Zitat des Tages von Abbi Jacobson:
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 had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
I will say that a lot of art, some of the best art, has very powerful and meaningful messages behind it, and the more you read the stuff on the walls, the more you learn the artist's intention, and you have a totally new point of view of what it's about.
When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.
Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.
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.
We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
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.
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.
We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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.
I would love, obviously, someone like Gloria Steinem to do anything with me. We would obviously have to get lunch after, and she'd have to sign stuff for me.
When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.
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.
We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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 recently saw this home video where my brother is playing this character Arsenio Grimley, who is a mix of Arsenio Hall and Ed Grimley - which, clearly, is my parents' doing, because he's, like, 10. He's the host, I'm every guest, and then my dad is Elton John. That was a Saturday night.
Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan.
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.'
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.
I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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 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 sometimes worry that maybe it's better to be really good at one thing than be okay at a couple things.
If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.
I'm really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.
