Jane Levy Quotes

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

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.

Someone who doesn't take herself too seriously and can be a goofball. Because everyone's a nerd inside, I don't care how cool you are.

I'm part Bridget Jones, part Larry David. I'm shy; I'm prude.

I just talk about the funny things in my life, and the idea is that my observations reflect the lives of my audience - so people are really laughing at themselves. This is the theory, anyway, and I am aware that in print, that it doesn't appear to be very funny. But it is, and I am definitely funny.

I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier.

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

If you can't make fun of yourself, you don't have any right to make fun of others

In England, I've done a whole bunch of stuff where I just make a complete ass of myself. I've been doing it for 20 years, so I just gravitate toward it anyway. I'd rather do that than do the stuff where I'm supposed to be trying to look cool in some way. It's more interesting to me.

Comics who grew up surviving their childhood by being able to be the first one to make the joke about their weight or their hairy arms - like me - whatever they're insecure about, whatever they're apologizing for, that becomes their strength.

See? My plans don’t all suck. Just most of them.

I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.

You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else's.

Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Brownest.

Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?

I think that people see that Sandra Bullock has an ability to laugh at herself and you just don't find that too often.

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.

I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

No matter how you feel, you've got to be able to laugh at yourself. If you can laugh at Donald Trump, then you better be able to laugh at yourself, too. For us as comedians, we have to point out what's funny.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

I tell ya, I was an ugly kid. I was so ugly that my dad kept the kid's picture that came with the wallet he bought.

I don't take myself that seriously, I'm taking the piss out of myself. I can't really beat up guys, it's fun!

I snorted "oh, beauty. What's that good for?" Mary stared, her eyes round. "It won you the prince, did it not?" I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality." I giggled to let Mary know I was trying to make fun of myself.