Top 120 Diablo Cody Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In my opinon, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.”

— Diablo Cody

2. “Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.”

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3. “And I think I’m an adrenaline junkie, and there’s nothing that will spike your adrenaline more than sitting in a theater and listen to an audience react to something you’ve written.”

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4. “I have a huge repertoire. I love karaoke.”

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5. “I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.”

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6. “He is the cheese to my macaroni.”

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7. “Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took off all her clothes and jumped into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and she was like, “Blaaaaah! I’m a kraken from the sea!” Su-Chin: That was you.”

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8. “Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream...”

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9. “Jeez banana! Shut your freaking gob!”

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10. “I feel like I’m part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we’re actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.”

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11. “If a woman chooses to work, people say, “Oh it’s so sad that you’re not at home with your children.” But no one ever says that to a man because it’s assumed that the man is going to be the provider. There’s this double standard that exists and it really frustrates me.”

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12. “The Ten Worst Songs to Strip To: 1. That Midnight Oil song about aborigines.”

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13. “People don’t have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.”

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14. “People say ‘teenage girls aren’t so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.’ People who say that aren’t spending time with teenagers.”

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15. “There’s something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They’re inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.”

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16. “I’m a pessimist by nature. I don’t think things are ever going to work out, I’m not particularly ambitious.”

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17. “I hear that 5 o’clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I’m also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.”

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18. “He wasn’t a carrier of commitment-phobia or other notable boy diseases and he used expensive moisturizer. That’s about all it takes to bang my gong.”

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19. “Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.”

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20. “To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.”

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21. “You make a first impression and people never forget it. If people want to think of me as the wacky ‘Juno’ lady forever, I could think of worse ways to be labeled.”

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22. “Love is mysterious and rad, like Steve Perry from Journey.”

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23. “The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they’re like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.”

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24. “Juno: Honest to blog?”

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25. “Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.”

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26. “Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints.”

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27. “That’s also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it’s really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.”

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28. “I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.”

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29. “I’m glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.”

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30. “I don’t know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I’m hired to write something by “The Man,” or by a studio, for whatever reason, it’s really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.”

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31. “The stuff I write isn’t strictly autobiographical, but it’s personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.”

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32. “I think it’s pretty obvious that women’s stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.”

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33. “Unfortunately I don’t live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.”

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34. “I’ve been told that I’m incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn’t function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.”

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35. “My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.”

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36. “People have always wanted to be recognized, and that’s human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.”

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37. “The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.”

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38. “The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips and falls, the adorable klutz.”

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39. “Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you’re able to make your work visible, easily.”

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40. “I always say when you write a book, you’re a ‘one-man band.’ Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it’s just a sketch.”

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41. “I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can’t resist the siren call of email.”

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42. “I think it’s great when writers get recognition; it doesn’t happen very often. I just don’t want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.”

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43. “I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.”

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44. “Speaking of Twitter, I don’t even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!”

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45. “There’s probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.”

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46. “Everybody knows that I’m not a snob when it comes to pop culture, obviously. I love reality shows.”

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47. “Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.”

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48. “You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I’m glad it’s over.”

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49. “I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son’s school tuition in Los Angeles.”

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50. “You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.”

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