Top 120 Jennette McCurdy Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “To ensure that you do well at your Princess Paradise Park callback. If you do what I tell you to do, you will eventually book the role. When this happens, your mother will be happy and all of your family’s problems will be solved.”

— Jennette McCurdy

2. “I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately – without context, without boxes – and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”

— Jennette McCurdy

3. “I have always felt reduced to the number on the scale – maybe because, in a way, it’s easier. Defining yourself is hard. Complicated. Messy. Letting the number on the scale do it for you is simple. Direct. Straightforward.”

— Jennette McCurdy

4. “The air in the house felt like a held breath.”

— Jennette McCurdy

5. “He’s a distant man with an emotional range of a potato.”

— Jennette McCurdy

6. “He has no concept of loss. I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don’t. And whenever I encounter someone who doesn’t, I disregard them.”

— Jennette McCurdy

7. “Why haven’t I heard the Holy Ghost? I’d ask in my prayers. Is there something I’ve done wrong that has made me not deserve him? Is it my impure thoughts about Frankie Muniz?”

— Jennette McCurdy

8. “Maybe when I have a slip, I can acknowledge how disappointing and frustrating it is without getting caught in the shame spiral. Without letting that spiral lead to more slips, and more slips, and more slips, until they’ve become a slide. Maybe now a slip can be, as Jeff says, just that. A slip.”

— Jennette McCurdy

9. “The fragility of Mom’s life is the center of mine.”

— Jennette McCurdy

10. “Church is a beautiful, peaceful, three-hour weekly reprieve from the place I hate most: home.”

— Jennette McCurdy

11. “Writing is the opposite of performing to me. Performing feels inherently fake. Writing feels inherently real.”

— Jennette McCurdy

12. “I tried desperately to understand and know my mother – what made her sad, what made her happy, and on and on and on – at the expense of ever really knowing myself. Without Mom around, I don’t know what I want. I don’t know what I need. I don’t know who I am. And I certainly don’t know what to wish for.”

— Jennette McCurdy

13. “Trying to reason with the unreasonable is unreasonable.”

— Jennette McCurdy

14. “Maybe it’s because she didn’t want to be a dancer growing up, she wanted to be an actress, and maybe Mom only sits in when I’m being the thing she wanted to be.”

— Jennette McCurdy

15. “She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and exploited.”

— Jennette McCurdy

16. “Mom didn’t get better. But I will.”

— Jennette McCurdy

17. “I was conditioned to believe any boundary I wanted was a betrayal of her, so I stayed silent. Cooperative.”

— Jennette McCurdy

18. “I was never aiming for bulimia. I was attempting to have anorexia, but I couldn’t keep it up without my mom.”

— Jennette McCurdy

19. “I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don’t.”

— Jennette McCurdy

20. “And if my entire life and point of view and identity have been built on a false foundation, confronting that false foundation would mean destroying and rebuilding a new foundation from the ground up. I have no idea how to go about doing this.”

— Jennette McCurdy

21. “I hate being known as Sam. I absolutely hate it.”

— Jennette McCurdy

22. “I could buy some plants.” I shrug. The amount of times I’ve thought buying plants might make a difference in my life is staggering.”

— Jennette McCurdy

23. “I always forget that trying to reason with the unreasonable is... unreasonable.”

— Jennette McCurdy

24. “Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”

— Jennette McCurdy

25. “Joe turns on his side, facing away from me, and clutches a pillow tight to his chest. He takes a long breath. “What have I done?” he asks.”

— Jennette McCurdy

26. “I’m abusing my body every day. I’m miserable. I’m depleted. And yet the compliments keep pouring in.”

— Jennette McCurdy

27. “Regardless, I’m discovering just how powerful of a tool it is to not love someone. Loving someone is vulnerable. It’s sensitive. It’s tender. And I get lost in them. If I love someone, I start to disappear.”

— Jennette McCurdy

28. “My scale has defined me for so long. The number it shows tells me whether I’m succeeding or failing, whether I’m trying hard enough or not, whether I’m good or bad.”

— Jennette McCurdy

29. “This house is an embarrassment. This house is shameful. I hate this house. I hate how being inside it makes me feel tense and anxious.”

— Jennette McCurdy

30. “She tells me to put the outfit on for my party while she already starts taking off my pajamas. As she’s removing my clothes, it feels more like a rip than a peel.”

— Jennette McCurdy

31. “Sorry,” I say while I poop and Mom wets a paper towel with water. I’m embarrassed she still insists on wiping my butt. I tried to tell her recently that now that I’m eight, I think I can handle it, but she looked like she was gonna cry and said she needs.”

— Jennette McCurdy

32. “I’m done being a good sport. I resent being a good sport. If I wasn’t such a good sport to begin with, I wouldn’t be in this predicament in the first place.”

— Jennette McCurdy

33. “Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something.”

— Jennette McCurdy

34. “I’m so unimpressed by people. Even irritated by them. At times even disgusted by them.”

— Jennette McCurdy

35. “I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with. Because once the context ends, so does the friendship. I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately – without context, without boxes –.”

— Jennette McCurdy

36. “It’s my first time in a therapist’s waiting room and not at all what I expected. Aren’t these places supposed to be clinical? This room is anything but. It’s cozy and inviting. Granted, Laura is a therapist-slash-life coach, so maybe therapists that are multi-hyphenates do more decorating. I’m skeptical.”

— Jennette McCurdy

37. “The years that you’re supposed to spend finding yourself, I was spending pretending to be other people. The years that you’re supposed to spend building character, I was spending building characters.”

— Jennette McCurdy

38. “Why, whenever two people are hugging in a room of three, does the third person feel the need to get in on the hug? Hugs were meant as a two-person activity, not a three-person one. We don’t need you, Number 3. Thank you.”

— Jennette McCurdy

39. “Mom. And I can tell immediately by her body language and facial expression – upright posture, lifted chin, gritted teeth, widened eyes – that she’s not upset, she’s not angry, she’s livid. She’s about to blow. Oh no. There’s gotta be something I can do.”

— Jennette McCurdy

40. “I proudly show my half-eaten portions to Mom after every meal. She beams. Each Sunday, she weighs me and measures my thighs with a measuring tape.”

— Jennette McCurdy

41. “It is an honor that Mom cares about me so much that something like me having my own favorite color would devastate her. True love.”

— Jennette McCurdy

42. “I can’t let Mom know I’m into purple, since Mom prefers pink. She would be heartbroken if I suddenly announce that I’ve switched my favorite color to one that isn’t also hers. It is an honor that Mom cares about me so much that something like me having my own favorite color would devastate her. True love.”

— Jennette McCurdy

43. “This house is an embarrassment. This house is shameful. I hate this house. I hate how being inside it makes me feel tense and anxious, and all week long I look forward to my three-hour escape into the land of testimonies and pine-scented tile cleaner.”

— Jennette McCurdy

44. “I want to give you the life I never had, Net. I want to give you the life I deserved. The life my parents wouldn’t let me have.”

— Jennette McCurdy

45. “I’m filled with so much shame and anxiety every time after I eat, I literally don’t know what to do to make myself feel better except throw up. And after I’m done, I half do. Half of me feels depleted, exhausted, like there’s nothing left, which is helpful. The other half of me now has a splitting headache, a sore throat, vomit sliding down my arm and tangled in my hair, and even more shame on top of the initial shame since now I’ve not only eaten but thrown up, too. Bulimia is not the answer.”

— Jennette McCurdy

46. “Defining yourself is hard. Complicated. Messy. Letting the number on the scale do it for you is simple. Direct. Straightforward.”

— Jennette McCurdy

47. “I’ve become a bitter person and I’m resigned to that fact. I can’t change my circumstances, so why try to change who I’ve become as a result of them?”

— Jennette McCurdy

48. “He kept brushing his hair behind his ear, which is mildly repulsive to see coming from a man.”

— Jennette McCurdy

49. “My mother emotionally, physically and mentally abused me in ways that will forever impact me. She gave me breast and vaginal exams until I was seventeen years old. These “exams” made my body stiff with discomfort. I felt violated, yet I had no voice, no ability to express that.”

— Jennette McCurdy

50. “Calorie restriction is wonderful!”

— Jennette McCurdy