Amy Sedaris Quotes (40 Quotes)


    I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

    I'm satisfied just thinking of the idea.

    I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

    You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.



    David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

    I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

    But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

    They assume that I want a boyfriend, and yeah, that I'd probably like to have a baby and get married - but they're wrong.

    I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

    My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and he's really good.

    Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

    It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.


    They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

    My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

    I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts.

    My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.

    More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

    I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

    Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

    I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

    So all I've been doing is I cook and I clean, and I entertain at my house a lot.

    I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

    It's driving me crazy It's awful. I saw four last night during the Academy Awards. Four little baby mice running all over my apartment.

    But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.

    It's all about process to me - as long as it's fun to me, I don't care about the final product.

    Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

    I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.

    I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, I'll just try to listen to my friends, and they'll say the same thing over and over again.

    People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.


    They live between seven and nine years and sometimes they grow up to be teenagers but she said that my rabbit was actually really laid back.

    But I think we have our own little world we're in.




    I always find something to keep me busy.

    My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

    I really don't like going out. I don't like restaurants because I don't like the idea of someone, a waitress, being responsible for my evening. I like seconds, and more, and lots of conversation, and I've always hated the idea that in a restaurant an evening just ends. I find that incredibly depressing.


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