Cristin Milioti Quotes

Gag me with a spoon!

People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

I'm not actually perishing, but I do feel like I die a little every time someone uses 'literally' to mean 'really.'

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

Eat my shorts!

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.

Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.

I may have exaggerated a bit when I said that 80 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs. What I meant to say was 75 per cent of the top 100 women are fat pigs.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

I say 'incantation' a lot, when what I really mean 'incarnation.' It's a programmed mistake.

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.

You can say now, 'I dissed him' - to diss, I dissed him - or, 'Stop dissing her'. And that's the interesting thing, that it's the prefix that's become the verb! It's a most remarkable development.

You don't usually get a compound word where the first part is a slang thing and the second part is a rather ordinary or formal thing - they don't usually mix - but 'gobsmacked' is a perfect exception to that rule.

I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'

Whenever I write lyrics and an Americanism slips in, I always cut it straight out. I can't use the word 'babe,' for instance. It makes me cringe.

New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In doing so, it has a potent opportunity to create new misconceptions and confusion.

My songs have some street talk in them, but that's the way I talk and the way a lot of people I know talk.

I'll tell you one big misconception. Cops never say 'Freeze!' It might be misinterpreted. They might think you were, like, ordering fries. Or that you had fleas.

Language is ever on the move, and most days, I check out the 'Urban Dictionary' where anyone can invent a new and useful word or phrase.