Abbi Jacobson Quotes & Sayings

I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting. — Abbi Jacobson

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women ... — Abbi Jacobson

I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest. — Abbi Jacobson

Cereal when high is always a great option. I don't even have cereal for that reason. — Abbi Jacobson

I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do. — Abbi Jacobson

I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as influenced by male comedians as I am female comedians. — Abbi Jacobson

I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen. — Abbi Jacobson

I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up. — Abbi Jacobson

Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her. — Abbi Jacobson

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend. — Abbi Jacobson

If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them. — Abbi Jacobson

I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school. — Abbi Jacobson

I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish. — Abbi Jacobson

I remembered that you can find joy in work and life, and if you do it right, they fuel each other-like dueling drummers, better and better, one after the other. — Abbi Jacobson

We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it. — Abbi Jacobson

Every show that comes out that's female driven is compared to the last female-driven show, as if it's taking over. — Abbi Jacobson

When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it. — Abbi Jacobson

I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show. — Abbi Jacobson

I used to not be into the fancy ones. I used to eat goo balls all the time. — Abbi Jacobson

When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive. — Abbi Jacobson

When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there. — Abbi Jacobson

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that? — Abbi Jacobson

You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.' — Abbi Jacobson

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy. — Abbi Jacobson

I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting. — Abbi Jacobson