Wendi McLendon-Covey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Want #Terrible #About Yourself
You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Fashion #Thinking #Ugly
As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress.
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Home #Writing #Phones
What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Mean #Dinner #Feels
Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Mom #Paranoia
Improv is more than just spitting out a bunch of funny stuff that's unrelated to the material. You have to stay in character, you have to react and respond as the character you're trying to play. You have to service the story, and I think improv training has helped with my listening, responding, and my audition technique. It's sounds so silly, but it's true. Because not only do you improvise during the audition, but once you get the part, they'll say, "Throw away everything. Just improv this scene. Do whatever you want." Someone could panic if they're not used to doing something like that.
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Silly #Character #Thinking
I learned how to let other performers have their moment. A lot of people can't do that. They just chew the scenery and steamroll over their scene partners. It doesn't make you look better in the long run to do that. You have to have balance in your scene. If it's somebody else's moment, let them have it. Learn how to be generous. Plus, it makes the audience hate you.
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Running #Hate #Long
I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it.
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Kids #Laughing #Parent
I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#People #Attention #Comedy
Growing up, I was the weird, theatrical kid who always tried to make people be in my plays. I've always loved comedy, but when it came time to figure out what I was going to go to school for, my parents were like, "Acting?! I don't think so. No." It took me a while to get the courage to pursue it. I had to do it in secret for a little bit, and then when I got married and was out on my own, I went for it.
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Growing Up #School #Kids
I had seen some shows at the Groundlings [legendary L.A. improvisational and sketch comedy troupe] and thought, "If I could ever do that, that would really mean something, that I have arrived." So I went through the program and said to myself, "I'm going to stay here until they kick me out." Seriously, they can ask you to leave at any point. Luckily, they never did that to me.
-- Wendi McLendon-Covey

#Mean #Comedy #Legendary

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