Lorrie Moore Quotes

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

I like making fun of myself; I don't want to make fun of other people, so I don't mind doing something out of character that some people might not expect me to do.

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

The more you try to look sexy, the lamer it is, so you just have to commit to the comedy.

Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention.

I'm not interested in just being the hot girl. I'm really goofy, and I love laughing, and that's such a big part of who I am.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

Sometimes, the other characters are too normal and then you start to be brought back to reality but then Luna shows up and she is just so funny and cool and honest and slightly mad and she's all that matters. She is 100% true. She puts on no shows, because she is so comfortable with herself.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

I was a very quiet child growing up. I always knew that I was funny - I just never put it to use.

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.

I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, 'Yeah, we're the Kinks.' Celebrate your difference; don't be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.

The only way I was going to be funny was if I was myself, and either you liked it, or you didn't. Either you got on my train, or you didn't. Freeing myself of this idea that I had to fit a certain mold was when I was able to be my funniest.

God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.

I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.

My laugh is filthy. I'd change it if I could, but it's become a trademark.