Maya Rudolph famous quotes

04-19-2025

I like comedy as a group sport.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Sports #Groups #Comedy
I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Funny #Comedian #Exciting
I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Growing Up #Musician #Fantasy
I have an equal opportunity womb!
-- Maya Rudolph

#Opportunity #Womb #Equal
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.
-- Maya Rudolph

#People #African American #Black
The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Children #Love You #Parent
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.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Normal #Moments #Feels
Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion Don'ts in my day.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Fashion #Lord
To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Mother #Growing Up #Loss
Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Men #Doubt #Comedy
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.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Writing #Goal #Choices
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!'
-- Maya Rudolph

#Disappointment #Years #Want
I think that people who don't like kids are awful people.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Kids #Thinking #People
I feel like I'm a drag queen.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Queens #Drag #Drag Queen
I really love laughing.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Laughing
Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Air #Want #Calm
I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Thinking
I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Lovely #Guilt #Ancestry
I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Children #People #Baffled
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Writing #People #Facts
I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Dream #Chance
I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Sports #Males #Comedy
If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Kids #Yesterday
I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Mother #Children #Would Be
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.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Song #Sleep #Kids
To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Dream #Childhood #Your Children
There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Mom #Wonder #My Mom
I don't look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I'm tired and happy and I've had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Beautiful #Tired #Glasses
Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.
-- Maya Rudolph

#Children #Night #Saturday

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