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Amy Schumer quotes

Ocupation: Stand-up comedian

Life: b. June 1, 1981

Birthday: June 1

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We had to break up, though. We wanted different things - like he wanted kids and I wanted him to hear.

Topics: Funny, Kids, Different

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I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?

Topics: Get Better, Want, Imagine, Working Really Hard

You know what the worst part about my drinking is? When I'm drunk I slur. You know, like I say racial slurs. Wow, nobody likes that at a barbeque.

Topics: Drinking, Drunk, Wow, Slurs

Some street jokes are just timeless. There's an old street joke about comedians. The joke is that a beautiful girl comes up to a comedian at the end of the night and says, "I saw your show tonight, and I just loved it. I want to go home with you, and I'll do anything you want." And the comedian says, "Were you at the 7 or the 9?" That's just a perfect joke, because it points out how egomaniacal and obsessive comedians are. Even though I'm not waiting for a groupie, I can completely understand it. It just defines how comedians are driven.

Topics: Beautiful, Girl, Home, Groupie

Don't feel bad for me. I think I'm, like, so pretty.

Topics: Funny, Thinking, Comedy

I understand why so many female comics quit or change their path, because it is hard. It's hard to be a comedian, and people have so much aggression towards women. I don't really know where that comes from, but I feel a total responsibility, and I'm gonna do my part, to continue on the path that I'm on.

Topics: Responsibility, People, Comedian

Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'

Topics: Pilates, Blackouts

I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ***** off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.

Topics: Memorable, Responsibility, Comedian, Megalomaniacs

I'll never forget how she told us. She took us all out to brunch, and she was like, 'You guys, I'm keeping this one.'

Topics: Funny, Guy, Brunch

The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy. I loved Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn movies. I just wanted to laugh. I liked women in comedy, and I liked male comics as I got a little older. My interests just never matched up with other girls'.

Topics: Girl, Night, Laughing, Saturday Night Live

Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.

Topics: Thinking, Years, Stage

My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.

Topics: Mom, Dad, Thinking, Passive Aggressive

Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo.

Topics: Children, Cancer, Mean, Mean Spirited

Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.

Topics: Hard Work, Way, Comedy

I'm not extra sensitive to handshakes. I shake hands all the time.

Topics: Hands, Sensitive, Shakes, Handshake

Everyone is allowed to have their own boundaries. You just are. No matter how you dress, no matter what you say or anything, and I feel strongly about that.

source: - Source: www.avclub.com

Topics: Dresses, Matter, Boundaries

I don't feel any sense of competition at all, and that might be my naïveté, but I don't feel pitted against anyone at all.

Topics: Competition, Vets, Might

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

Topics: People, Conversation, Disarming

I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Cancer, War, People, Beat Cancer, New Territory

I only wear heels when it's 100-percent required, and even sometimes not then. I have to talk myself into a bra. I've done an hour of standup where I've been like, "I don't have to wear a bra tonight." If you're going to be on camera, you have to get it together, but other than that, I am pretty lazy as a woman.

Topics: Lazy, Together, Cameras, I Am Pretty, Get It Together

I've done some things I'm embarrassed about, and I like to tell people about them so that maybe they feel less embarrassed or alone when they do something they're unsure about.

Topics: People, Done, Embarrassed

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

source: - "Amy Schumer Answers Your Questions About Sex, Comedy, and Feminism". Q&A with Readers, jezebel.com. April 29, 2014.

Topics: Mean, Men, People

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

Topics: Dark, Say Anything, Shock, Shock Value

I am a hot-blooded fire and I am fearless.

Topics: Fire, Fearless, Hot

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

Topics: College, Theater, Backgrounds

I tend to eat pretty healthy, though, and I work out - I work out hard.

Topics: Work Out, Healthy

I like to create stuff. I like to express myself through jokes.

Topics: Stuff, Jokes, Stuff I Like

The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.

Topics: Couple, Roles, Olivia

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

Topics: Girl, Mom, Mother, Attractive Girl

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

Topics: Thinking, Years, Working Really Hard

I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.

Topics: Thinking, People, Laughing

I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you, and I thank you.

Topics: Mother, Sleep, Weight

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

Topics: Order, People, Needs

I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.

Topics: Mad, Skins, Should

My mom made me think I was gorgeous. When I was younger she was like, 'Look at you! You're an angel. You sparkle!' And I was like, 'I do!' You believe your parents.

Topics: Mom, Daughter, Believe

I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading a mean Twitter comment, and say, 'All right! You got it. You figured me out. I'm not pretty. I'm not thin. I do not deserve to use my voice. I'll start wearing a burqa and start waiting tables at a pancake house. All my self-worth is based on what you can see.' But then I think, F*** that ... I am a woman with thoughts and questions and s*** to say. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

source: - Amy Schumer (2016). “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Beautiful, Strong, Fun, Waiting Tables, Hands In The Air

I only met Joan Rivers once. But when she passed away, it felt like a part of me went away, too.

Topics: Rivers, Passed Away, Mets

I hope that the next time you go to a concert, the band doesn't play the song you wanna hear! And instead, they just play songs off their new album!

Topics: Song, Play, Albums

I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

Topics: Beautiful, Strong, Inspiration

I have an excuse, actually, why I've been drinking so much. I haven't said this out loud yet - this is exciting - I'm drinking for two. Thank you, wow. I mean, just for now. Somebody's being evicted.

Topics: Drinking, Mean, Two

The moments that make life worth living are when things are at their worst and you find a way to laugh.

source: - "Amy Schumer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 14, 2015.

Topics: Laughing, Way, Moments, Life Worth Living

I finally just slept with my high school crush. But I swear; now he expects me to go to his graduation - like I know where I'm going to be in three years.

Topics: Crush, School, Years

I want to make women laugh. I want to make them feel beautiful in their own skin. I want to empower them to use their voice and not apologize.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Beautiful, Laughing, Empowering

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

source: - Twitter post from Oct 27, 2009

Topics: Parent, Black, Knows

You have to pretend like you want to use a condom. I like to say something fun when I bring it up, but honest. I'll be like, 'You're going to want to wear this. I've had a busy month.

Topics: Honesty, Fun, Use

I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I just thought it was, like, his thang, you know? I was like, 'He's probably in a band.

Topics: Shoes, Ideas, Guy

I've got a terrible person in me just as much as anybody else, and I think - I like to think I also have a really good person in me.

source: - "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

Topics: Thinking, Good Person, Terrible

She's always bragging about the dumbest stuff. The other day she was telling me, she's like, 'You know I can still fit in my wedding dress.' I was like, 'Oh my god, who cares, right?' I mean it is weird that she's the same size now as she was when she was 8 months pregnant.

Topics: Mean, Who Cares, Dresses, Wedding Dress

It's a weird age. They're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still don't know whether to be like, 'Congratulations,' or 'Do you need a ride?

Topics: Congratulations, Age, Needs

He was really into family... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.

Topics: Family, Weekend, Wife

I hate false advertising, like 'Skittles: taste the rainbow.' No one's ever been like, 'Rainbow, right you guys?' Or what's Reese's? 'There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's.' Oh, really? Tell that to my uncle who used to put them in my underwear. Alright, maybe your uncles didn't love you.

Topics: Uncles, Hate, Love You, Skittles

I donated blood today. That's what I call getting an AIDS test.

Topics: Blood, Tests, Today

Out of nowhere she tells me that Oliver Stone - you know, the director - she's like, 'He has this huge Asian fetish, and I find it totally offensive.' And I'm like, 'Why, Kwan? That sounds awesome.' She's like, 'I'm offended because I'm Asian.' And I was just like, 'Well, I'm sorry, but I didn't even notice that. I thought you were just really tired.

Topics: Sorry, Tired, Sound

I am a hot-blooded fire and I am fearless.

Topics: Fire, Fearless, Hot

My mom's always saying really smart things... like, you probably heard this one, 'Why buy the cow when the milk has HPV?' Wish I'd listened to that one.

Topics: Mom, Smart, Wish

The way that these girls keep themselves skinny is awful, isn't it? By vomiting or using hard drugs - which I can't afford.

Topics: Girl, Drug, Vomiting

I don't try to be feminist. I just am. It's innately inside me. I have no interest in trying to be the perfect feminist, but I do believe feminists are in good hands with me.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Believe, Perfect, Feminist

I've never slept with anyone who could help me at all. No one. I wish I had. If anything, everyone I've had sex with has been a real step in the wrong direction.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Real, Wish, Helping

I completely identify as female, believe it or not.

source: - "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

Topics: Believe, Female

Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Girl, Growing Up, Mean, Preconceived Notions

I just want to get the most money I can.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

The kids didn't call me Amy Schumer; they called me Amy Jewmer. One summer, I'll never forget this, all the kids took turns throwing handfuls of pennies at me. I know, I was like, 'Excuse me - this is awesome!

Topics: Summer, Kids, Amy

My comedy is unapologetic and fearless. Like, sometimes you'll wind up having condomless sex with someone that you probably shouldn't. I'm interested in sharing that part of myself unapologetically so that other people will hopefully feel better.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Sex, Feel Better, Wind, Unapologetic

The girls I grew up with they're living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still react like, 'What are you going to do? I'll drive you, I guess.

Topics: Girl, Adults, Amy

You know that show 'Teen Mom'? Or if you're from the South, 'Mom.

Topics: Mom, Shows, South

Want me to Stevie Wonder my way to the bathroom?

Topics: Want, Way, Bathroom

Very neat for a boy; always cleaned up his mess, no matter where he got it on me. He's Hispanic, so he's like, 'Now who's the wetback?' I'm like, 'Hey, still you. Get back in the kitchen, those dishes aren't going to do themselves.

Topics: Boys, Kitchen, Hey

I feel like you know what you're going to be good at when you're older based on what you like when you're younger. When I was younger my best friend was Tony, this kid Tony, and he loved rocks. He was always playing with rocks, counting them, and now he's a crack head.

Topics: Kids, Rocks, My Best Friend

You shoot saltwater in your ass?

Topics: Ass

I'm so in love with my boyfriend right now. Everything is perfect, but we want totally different things in bed. Like, he's always turning the lights on, you know what I'm saying? And I shut them off, and he turns them on, and the other day, he's like, 'Amy, why are you so shy? You know, you have a beautiful body.' I was like, 'Oh my god, you're so cute. You think I don't want you to see me?'

Topics: Cute, Beautiful, Thinking, Beautiful Body

I'll never forget the day I realized I wasn't quite the Ford model I thought I was.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Never Forget, Forget, I Realized

It was the best night of my life, getting to dance on stage with Madonna!

Topics: Night, Best Night Of My Life, Best Night

Let's all just follow the lead of Glamour, and join forces and lift each other up.

Topics: Glamour, Force, Lifts

I have gotten death threats - that was scary. But it just made me want to use my voice more.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Scary, Threat

I care about what the people I care about think about me. It's a short list, but I really care about what those people think.

source: - Source: www.glamour.com

Topics: Thinking, People, Care

I asked for a glass of Chardonnay. And in a 9/11-like twist, they didn't have any. They offered me Pinot.

Topics: Glasses, Twists, Chardonnay

I was actually on two reality shows, which is crazy. Just to think that, out there, there was some guy, like flipping through the channels, being like, 'Hey, I 69'd her on a cruise ship.

Topics: Crazy, Reality, Thinking, Reality Shows, Cruise Ships

Now every idiot from high school's like, 'I'm back!' We weren't supposed to meet again. Stop poking me and inviting me to your weird vampire parties. No, I don't want to follow you on Twatter. Like, nobody's interested in you. I don't want to see you in real life, why would I want to follow you in the imaginary one?

Topics: Real, Party, School, Your Weird

The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

source: - "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

Topics: Stories, Firsts, Truth Is

I'm still proud of a lot of my jokes when I started.

source: - "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

Topics: Proud, Stills, Jokes

Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis.

source: - Source: www.popmatters.com

Topics: Song, Syphilis, Sixteen

I call myself a comic.But I started as an actress. I did plays since I was 5.

source: - Source: www.popmatters.com

Topics: Play, Actresses, Comic

I always did plays, I got the comedic roles in college ... or, uh, the ones that would get naked.

source: - Source: www.popmatters.com

Topics: College, Play, Naked

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