Abbi Jacobson Quotes:
Before ‘Broad City,’ I had a lot of jobs that I knew were not for me, but when you’re young and don’t know exactly what you’re going to do, if an opportunity comes up, you feel like, ‘This is an opportunity; I have to try it.’
Abbi Jacobson
Everybody has will – you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.
Abbi Jacobson
Everything on ‘Broad City’ that my character has drawn is my stuff from years and years ago.
Abbi Jacobson
Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.
Abbi Jacobson
I am obsessed with the painter Jonas Wood, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to afford one of his paintings. He’s an L.A.-based painter; his stuff is incredible.
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 definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends.
Abbi Jacobson
I didn’t go to school for illustration. I did larger pieces, mostly drawings and paintings, and minored in video, but when I moved to N.Y.C., I didn’t have a studio space anymore and downsized to my desk and started illustrating. I started a greeting card company and sold cards all over the city.
Abbi Jacobson
I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday – birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas – it was always art supplies for my brother and I.
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 feel like comedy had a boys’-club label when we were starting.
Abbi Jacobson
I find the most normal things about famous people to be the most fascinating.
Abbi Jacobson
I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
Abbi Jacobson
I had this job where I had to cold call people, and that was terrifying to me, and that was on a far different level than invading their space.
Abbi Jacobson
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
Abbi Jacobson
I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with ‘SNL’ growing up.
Abbi Jacobson
I love Maira Kalman. She’s an amazing illustrator and writer. I’ve loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing about, I developed a whole new appreciation. Her work made me observe everything so much deeper and more joyfully.
Abbi Jacobson
I really admire people that do more than one thing. That’s sort of the goal, right – to be an artist that can work in any medium. That’s what I hope for my career.
Abbi Jacobson
I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.
Abbi Jacobson
I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They’re not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways.
Abbi Jacobson
I recently saw this home video where my brother is playing this character Arsenio Grimley, who is a mix of Arsenio Hall and Ed Grimley – which, clearly, is my parents’ doing, because he’s, like, 10. He’s the host, I’m every guest, and then my dad is Elton John. That was a Saturday night.
Abbi Jacobson
I sometimes worry that maybe it’s better to be really good at one thing than be okay at a couple things.
Abbi Jacobson
I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
Abbi Jacobson
I wasn’t in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.
Abbi Jacobson
I will say that a lot of art, some of the best art, has very powerful and meaningful messages behind it, and the more you read the stuff on the walls, the more you learn the artist’s intention, and you have a totally new point of view of what it’s about.
Abbi Jacobson
I would love to be at a place where a girl character can also be a role model for young boys.
Abbi Jacobson
I would love, obviously, someone like Gloria Steinem to do anything with me. We would obviously have to get lunch after, and she’d have to sign stuff for me.
Abbi Jacobson
If anything can be art, then anyone can be an artist.
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’m from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
Abbi Jacobson
I’m from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It’s also the only time I have vacation.
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I’m not a political comic.
Abbi Jacobson
I’m not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I’m more culturally Jewish.
Abbi Jacobson
I’m really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.
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.
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