Elayne Boosler Quotes

I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.

The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.

not all thoughts have to become words!

I always have these little internal monologues. You'll get used to them.

Oh my God, I never really tweet, but there's a moment every day I write one and then delete it.

I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

Any human being has private thoughts.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.