June Diane Raphael Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to spend eight years of your life trying to get something done. You can get your answers very quickly, and there's something satisfying about that. — June Diane Raphael

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view. — June Diane Raphael

My go to karaoke song is 'Stars' from 'Les Mis', which is Javert's song. And it's super strange, and every time it comes on people are really weirded out, but that's what I do. — June Diane Raphael

I love 'Les Mis' so much, like, since I was younger; I saw it when I was like, you know, 10, and I've seen it almost 18 times. — June Diane Raphael

I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn't, I'd stay home rolled up in a ball watching 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' all day. — June Diane Raphael

One Christmas I had no money, and so I went home and just, like, wrote a poem; I mean, I didn't write them, but I just handed out poems as Christmas presents. Like, 'Here's a Pablo Neruda poem that really made me think of you.' — June Diane Raphael

Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of the earth! — June Diane Raphael

Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast. — June Diane Raphael

I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name. — June Diane Raphael