Quotes By Maya Rudolph

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

I would love it if you would come in and teach me how to really do you.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

I really love laughing.

If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it's better than nothing.

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

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.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live.

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!'

Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion Don'ts in my day.

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.

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.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

I think that people who don't like kids are awful people.

I have an equal opportunity womb!

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

I like comedy as a group sport.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

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.

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful.

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.