Top 160 Felicia Day Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything.”

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102. “What is ‘leveling’ and how does it work?”

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103. “Because if you can’t be your own weird self on the internet, where can you be? And what would be the point?”

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104. “Your qualification for finding a place to belong is enthusiasm and passion, and I think that’s a beautiful thing.”

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105. “My mom wasn’t home to arbitrate, so he forced me to try to strangle him with a phone cord.”

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106. “I fantasized bout how I’d use my free hour at school. Organize my sticker album or tend to my vast My Little Pony herd. You know, things that would contribute to my future.”

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107. “I think it’s really good to create pockets and events throughout the year that highlight certain things that are really popular on YouTube.”

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108. “Imagine saying to someone, “I have a kidney problem, and I’m having a lot of bad days lately.” Nothing but sympathy, right? “What’s wrong?” “My mom had that!” “Text me a pic of the ultrasound!” Then pretend to say, “I have severe depression and anxiety, and I’m having a lot of bad days lately.” They just look at you like you’re broken, right? Unfixable. Inherently flawed. Maybe not someone they want to hang around as much? Yeah, society sucks.”

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109. “Have you ever thrown a party and tried to get EXACTLY three dozen specifically qualified people to attend?”

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110. “We have to dig and experiment and figure out who the hell we are from birth to death, which is super inconvenient, right?”

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111. “We WILL reach our creative goals if we persist. Stay focused. Look to allies for support. And use the tools in this book to cut off enemies when they start to spring with their cheery “Heyo! Care to hear how much you suck?” voices.”

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112. “There was Heaven, then there was Earth, then there was YouTube, right?”

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113. “There was only one commercial online company at the time, CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.”

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114. “There’s a great Eleanor Roosevelt quote, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

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115. “Confrontation is what I dread the most in life.”

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116. “The creative process isn’t easy, even for chocolate-fountain people. It’s more like a wobbly, drunken journey down a very steep and scary hill, not knowing if there’s a sheer cliff at the end of it all. But it’s worth the journey, I promise.”

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117. “It’s hard being weird. No – it’s hard living in a culture that makes it hard.”

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118. “You can FEEL the wave of emotion online when something is about to go viral, good or bad. A scientist I met once mathematically compared internet behavior to swarm behavior seen in starlings or locusts.”

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119. “I knew that making something discoverable on the Internet was like sending someone on a scavenger hunt into the universe’s biggest flea market.”

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120. “My dreams about finding a place to create true, meaningful friendships around my fake video game world had come true.”

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121. “I expected perfection as soon as the pencil hit the paper, and since that’s impossible, I couldn’t get myself to start.”

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122. “If you wanna survive, stay close to the redhead.”

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123. “Yeah, yeah, success is a ladder, a marathon instead of a sprint and all that crap. Everyone can TELL you stuff like that, but you really have to understand advice in relation to YOURSELF, or it’s all just nice intellectual theory.”

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124. “I was a library loyalist, paper was always superior, and flipping through the index cards made me feel industrious.”

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125. “But the heart of my story is that the world opened up for me once I decided who I am– unapologetically.”

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126. “Creating can be just a vehicle for releasing feelings.”

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127. “Anyway, thanks for all the weirdness, Mom and Dad!”

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128. “And Kim could sense that I was freaking out. Because I said, looking freaked out, “The idea of doing that freaks me out.”

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129. “The truth is that freeing ourselves up to create is a form of self-care. We NEED to do it. So we can be our best and happiest selves.”

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130. “When we graduate from childhood into adulthood, we’re thrown into this confusing, Cthulhu-like miasma of life, filled with social and career problems, all with branching choices and no correct answers. Sometimes gaming feels like going back to that simple kid world. Real-life Felicia wasn’t getting more successful, but I could channel my frustration into making Keeblerette an A-list celebrity warlock, thank you very much!”

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131. “We all have periods of our life where we’re trapped, doing something we hate, and we develop habits that have nothing to do with our long-term goals to fill the downtime.”

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132. “If we don’t know what we have in our paint boxes, how can we know all the possible things we could paint?”

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133. “So after graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to become an actor. That was what my heart told me I needed to TRY to become. I knew I could do it. After all, I had two Real Degrees. How could I fail?”

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134. “I expected perfection as soon as the pencil hit the paper, and since that’s impossible, I couldn’t get myself to start. Then I felt guilty about not starting, which made me want to start even less.”

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135. “You made something great. And something new will come around. Or not. Either way, do the work you love. And love yourself. That’s all you can do in this world in order to be happy.”

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136. “FYI, it isn’t how I suspected. If you eat enough Cheetos you will NOT actually poop an extra-large Cheeto.”

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137. “A disturbed fan used that information and showed up at my front door, made his way INTO MY HOUSE, and afterward, proceeded to obsess over me online in an erratic and abusive way to the extent that I was terrified he would show up again and do something violent.”

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138. “We need the world to hear more opinions, give glimpses into more diverse subcultures.”

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139. “But the heart of my story is that the world opened up for me once I decided to embrace who I am – unapologetically. My story demonstrates that there’s no better time in history to have a dream and be able to reach an audience with your art. Or just be as weird as you want to be and not have to be ashamed. That lesson’s just as legit.”

— Felicia Day

140. “I try to go out of my way to connect with each person as much as I possibly can despite the long lines an stifling crowds and people in cosplay with fakes weapons who accidentally poke people in the eyes with rubber broadswords. Because that single moment you get with someone you admire is so important, I never want anyone to walk away feeling mortified like I generally do when meeting someone I fan over.”

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141. “Upshot to my bizarre upbringing: I got super-hyper-educated in many odd areas but was pretty lonely for many years. Sometimes achingly so. They say that the root of everything you are lies in your childhood. Every emotional problem, every screwed-up relationship, every misplaced passion and career problem you can blame on the way you were raised. So I can be kinda smug when I say, “Boy, do I have some excuses!”

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142. “Never let the truth stop you from getting what you want.”

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143. “Accepting that we’re imperfect, and knowing that we have a right to exist anyway, is an empowering and important life tool.”

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144. “I wasn’t used to humans enough to have organic social impulses. But.”

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145. “In my childhood world, the sound of a modem dialing up to connect with another computer was the sound of freedom. I.”

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146. “My story demonstrates that there’s no better time in history to have a dream and be able to reach an audience with your art. Or just be as weird as you want to be and not have to be ashamed. That lesson’s just as legit.”

— Felicia Day

147. “At the heart of it, being creative allows us to understand ourselves better. Just like fingerprints or personalized music playlists, our creativity couldn’t come from anyone else.”

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148. “Everything creative we put out into the world is just a way to figure out how we can be better.”

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149. “But during my childhood my fringe interests remained uncriticized, so they bloomed inside of me without self-consciousness until I was out in the world, partially formed, like a blind-baked pie shell. By then it was WAY too late. I was irrevocably weird.”

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150. “Whether it was by someone volunteering to be an extra in our show, or part of the crew, or someone buying a DVD at a convention, or a superfan who tattooed our characters’ faces on her calf, my career has been built fan by fan. I wouldn’t trade that relationship, or collection of dolls of myself, for all the money and fame in the world.”

— Felicia Day