Top 30 Mae Martin Quotes

It’s very weird trying to imagine yourself as a ‘comedy character.’

People have referred to me as ‘innocent‘, which makes me feel disingenuous.

You don’t need a murder on a Martian colony. What is more dramatic than love? There’s highs and lows, especially in your twenties, when it completely takes you over.

I like to do shows that open a dialogue.

It’s a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that’s damaging your life.

In comedy you are allowed to be weird – and even applauded for it.

It was a slow process of getting closer and closer to my actual personality on stage. And now there’s very little separation. I definitely find the more open and vulnerable I am, the more people enjoy it.

I love ‘Titanic‘, I love ‘Romeo & Juliet’, those are my favourite films, and so it’s crazy to think that people wouldn’t connect with ‘Feel Good‘, it’s just a love story.

I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me.

Watching comedy for the first time I felt absolutely on fire. I just couldn’t believe there was this environment where people were being applauded for the weirdest things about themselves.

If you bite and chew the peel of a banana, then eat the fruit of the banana itself, you will find that it tastes like a tomato. I swear.

Making someone laugh is a good way to get their defences down so that they might then be open to new ideas, especially when they’re laughing at some common ground they relate to. Comedy’s always been an amazing tool for social change.

With the 12-step program, if you don’t subscribe to that way of life completely, it can be seen as failing, and I think a lot of people can take the parts of that kind of program that they need and not other parts.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

If you’re unhappy, you can’t make anything.

I love being gut-wrenchingly honest.

I want people to see how universal experiences of intimacy are, regardless of demographic or label or whatever.

A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you’re actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they’ve already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.

If I could go back and tell 13-year-old self that I would be on screen with Lisa Kudrow, spending my birthday on a ghost train in Blackpool with her, I would have been beside myself.

I’m attracted to funny people with nice hands who smell good and are kind to people.

I feel like I grew up in quite a public way in front of audiences.

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

I formed a sketch troupe with two friends, started doing gigs, and dropped out of school shortly after to pursue it full time! Now it sort of has to work out because I have zero other qualifications.

I’m talking about personal stuff so I think people are on my side.

Being on stage at the Soho Theatre is hard to beat.

I’m so unqualified to be a family therapist.

Bette Midler was my first love, and the intensity of those feelings remain.

If I had met Bette Midler, I wouldn’t be answering these questions right now because I’d have spontaneously combusted and gone to heaven.

You’re basically getting on stage and asking people, ‘Do you guys like me? Do you like who I am?’ But you grow pretty thick skinned. And the less scared you seem, the more people like you anyway.

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.