Mary Lynn Rajskub Quotes & Sayings

“I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.”

“I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.”

“I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.”

“I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.”

“I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'”

“My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.”

“The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.”

“'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.”

“To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.”

“I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.”