Tig Notaro famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
-- Tig Notaro

#Fun #Good Luck #People
I'm the luckiest unlucky person.
-- Tig Notaro

#Unlucky #Persons
When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.
-- Tig Notaro

#Graduation #Thinking #Moments
It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.
-- Tig Notaro

#Children #Responsibility #Parent
I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).
-- Tig Notaro

#Order #Bird #Documentaries
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.
-- Tig Notaro

#Girl #Mother #Country
My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.
-- Tig Notaro

#Wrinkles #Hair #Age
I am just at tragedy right now.
-- Tig Notaro

#Tragedy
Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.
-- Tig Notaro

#Pain #Heart #Heartache
I think every person and place is interesting, and there's an interesting story behind every door.
-- Tig Notaro

#Thinking #Interesting
I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.
-- Tig Notaro

#Guitar #People #Comedian
I hold back parts of my life and experiences... I don't want to share anything just for the sake of sharing and exposing myself, but if something feels right and I feel inspired by the situations or moment I'll definitely share it. There are so many stories and experiences I have not shared, and I don't feel compelled to.
-- Tig Notaro

#Inspired #Moments #Share
I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.
-- Tig Notaro

#Memories #Thinking #Feelings
I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol.
-- Tig Notaro

#Mother #Fashion #Artist
I didn't just want to be the one who was always looking around at the weird family members. I wanted to make my mistakes.
-- Tig Notaro

#Mistake #Want #Members
As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.
-- Tig Notaro

#Zero #School #Texas
The ideal length of time for sex to last is the entire relationship, breaking only for snacks.
-- Tig Notaro
When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.
-- Tig Notaro

#Coffee #Paper #Cigarette
Everybody, male or female, needs to possess qualities that they expect others to uphold. Being aware of yourself and your actions allows you to assess your shortcomings in an honest way.
-- Tig Notaro

#Quality #Female #Action
In chaotic situations, I feel like I can take a breath and look around and assess the situation and see the big picture. Going through the traumatic time that I did in my life, that's also given me even more of a breather in life to just be like, "I know everything's going to be fine. Even if this is the worst show in the world, no matter what happens, everything's going to be fine." It's an accumulation of things.
-- Tig Notaro

#World #Worst #Big Picture
I love drama - I would say more than I even love comedy - but I like in One Mississippi that I can go from a very moving moment to a Willy Wonka tube up my ass. I like the silliness as much as I like drama.
-- Tig Notaro

#Drama #Moving #Comedy
I didn't know whether I'd be attractive to anybody.
-- Tig Notaro

#Attractive #Knows
Everything's happened to me. Nothing can happen to me now.
-- Tig Notaro

#Happened #Happens
I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.
-- Tig Notaro

#School #Talking #Class
I always wonder, aside from even my name, what if my parents never split up? What if my mother never died? It swirls in my head all the time.
-- Tig Notaro

#Mother #Names #Parent
I can't believe I'm breathing and happy and thriving.
-- Tig Notaro

#Believe #Breathing #I Can

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