Tig Notaro Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Tig Notaro
I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.' — Tig Notaro
As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette. — Tig Notaro
When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment. — Tig Notaro
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop. — Tig Notaro
Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them. — Tig Notaro
It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get. — Tig Notaro
My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction. — Tig Notaro
I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously. — Tig Notaro
My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense. — Tig Notaro
One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever. — Tig Notaro
I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money. — Tig Notaro
I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic. — Tig Notaro
Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued. — Tig Notaro
When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit. — Tig Notaro
I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born. — Tig Notaro
I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person. — Tig Notaro
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either. — Tig Notaro
I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. — Tig Notaro
I'm now a pretty good mix of my mother and my stepfather because I'm in general pretty mellow. I'm not hyper-emotional. But there's also this side of me - my mother was an artist and very funny and a dancer and very wild and into fashion. My stepfather traveled a lot, and I kind of took on a role of parenting my mother a lot of times, because she was pretty hard to handle. A bit of a pistol. — Tig Notaro
As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy. — Tig Notaro
A lot of times people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think it should be wild and crazy, or loud music, and comedians are typically pretty mellow people that just want to talk to each other. I think it would be highly unusual to find comedians who want to be at a loud, crowded party. — Tig Notaro
It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is. — Tig Notaro
I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took. — Tig Notaro