Top 50 Aubrey Plaza Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you feel like a weirdo, it’s okay because weirdos rule the world.”

— Aubrey Plaza

2. “I sold my soul to the devil. I’d like to thank the devil.”

— Aubrey Plaza

3. “I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it’s meaningful, and I like the song. It’s a love song – kind of – but it’s kind of depressing and dark.”

— Aubrey Plaza

4. “Tina Fey is one of my heroes.”

— Aubrey Plaza

5. “I get really weird when I’m not working. I have to keep working.”

— Aubrey Plaza

6. “Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let’s go!”

— Aubrey Plaza

7. “I’ve felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.”

— Aubrey Plaza

8. “I’m going to create my own opportunities. If I can’t find the roles I want, I’ll just make them.”

— Aubrey Plaza

9. “I want people to like me but not at my expense.”

— Aubrey Plaza

10. “It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.”

— Aubrey Plaza

11. “When I’m on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven’t gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.”

— Aubrey Plaza

12. “Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel ‘sarcastic’ is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it’s almost they feel they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it’s not used in the right way.”

— Aubrey Plaza

13. “I’m too awkward to date, I think. I’m kind of all or nothing, you know? Either put a baby inside of me or leave me alone.”

— Aubrey Plaza

14. “Make all your decisions based on how hilarious it would be if you did it.”

— Aubrey Plaza

15. “My mom’s Puerto Rican. That’s why I’m so lively and colorful.”

— Aubrey Plaza

16. “It’s weird, huh? It’s like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.”

— Aubrey Plaza

17. “I do have magical powers, I try to use them for good and not evil, but I can pretty much make anyone do whatever I want them to do, if they’re within range.”

— Aubrey Plaza

18. “I realized two things from an early age – I was insane and had some kind of comedic thing going on. My brain was wired to think about things in terms of how funny they were.”

— Aubrey Plaza

19. “I always want to keep growing and keep surprising people, and showing them different parts of me.”

— Aubrey Plaza

20. “I’m not a super emotional person, so that’s one reason I love acting – it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.”

— Aubrey Plaza

21. “Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed.”

— Aubrey Plaza

22. “I’m totally an anxious mess all the time. There’s a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it’s just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I’m not doing good enough.”

— Aubrey Plaza

23. “The female love interest is boring to me. A female that’s interesting, smart, funny – that’s what I’m drawn to. I wouldn’t say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to.”

— Aubrey Plaza

24. “I’ve had experiences in my life where I’ve met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.”

— Aubrey Plaza

25. “Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.”

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26. “The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She’s been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school.”

— Aubrey Plaza

27. “Improv is so different, it’s such a collaborative thing, you’re working with other people, nothing is planned and it’s kind of this community mentality, whereas stand-up, you’re alone and it was really hard.”

— Aubrey Plaza

28. “My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more ‘approachable.’”

— Aubrey Plaza

29. “My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.”

— Aubrey Plaza

30. “I’m not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.”

— Aubrey Plaza

31. “I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.”

— Aubrey Plaza

32. “My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.”

— Aubrey Plaza

33. “I’m like that person who hates going to magic shows – and I love magic, I love wizards – but going to a show where there is any possibility of audience participation is a nightmare for me.”

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34. “A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.”

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35. “I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.”

— Aubrey Plaza

36. “There’s no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I’d probably be kicked out.”

— Aubrey Plaza

37. “I don’t let myself ‘surf’ on the Web, or I would probably drown.”

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38. “If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.”

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39. “When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it’s silent.”

— Aubrey Plaza

40. “I’m not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!”

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41. “With stand-up, it doesn’t matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it’s your job to make them laugh.”

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42. “When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.”

— Aubrey Plaza

43. “I think it’s nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that’s relatable and funny and interesting.”

— Aubrey Plaza

44. “It’s such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.”

— Aubrey Plaza

45. “Once you do a character in Hollywood and people haven’t seen you before, they put you in a box and they think that’s all that you can do and it’s hard to get people to take a risk on you.”

— Aubrey Plaza

46. “I can’t say I follow politics extremely closely, but I’m definitely aware of what’s going on in the world.”

— Aubrey Plaza

47. “I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.”

— Aubrey Plaza

48. “I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.”

— Aubrey Plaza

49. “I’m pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.”

— Aubrey Plaza

50. “I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.”

— Aubrey Plaza