Leslie Easterbrook Quotes

I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

I can't help teasing people. That's the way that I am, and I hope that nobody takes it too personally.

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.

The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

I'm honest, at the end of the day - I'm obese, but I'm not obtuse.

I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.

I don't think I push boundaries. I find that other people feel that way. To me, it's just about going up there and speaking the truth, whatever that is.

I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.

Self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty is a really freeing thing.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes.

You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

I consider myself a very passionate person, so as much fun as I like to have, I'm also the biggest asshole I know.

It's a funny thing about weaknesses....Most people will tell you they know their weaknesses. When asked, they'll tell you, 'Well for one thing, I'm overgenerous.' ... that's what innkeepers are for.