Top 30 Lizzy Caplan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t peak in high school.”

— Lizzy Caplan

2. “I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.”

— Lizzy Caplan

3. “I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It’s sort of like you’re in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you’d had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.”

— Lizzy Caplan

4. “I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn’t see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that’s a good thing.”

— Lizzy Caplan

5. “I’ve been a feminist since the day I was born. I wanted to play football. I didn’t want to play with dolls; I wanted to play with boys and didn’t understand why I couldn’t.”

— Lizzy Caplan

6. “You’d be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.”

— Lizzy Caplan

7. “There’s only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.”

— Lizzy Caplan

8. “I think if a girl who liked ‘Party Down’ found out that her boyfriend liked ‘Two and a Half Men,’ she would break up with him.”

— Lizzy Caplan

9. “I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I’ll be back into it.”

— Lizzy Caplan

10. “It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.”

— Lizzy Caplan

11. “If you meet a girl who has slept with 100 guys, you will think something of her you wouldn’t think of a guy who slept with 100 girls.”

— Lizzy Caplan

12. “I never get recognized for ‘Mean Girls.’ I can be walking around with Daniel Franzese, who’s in the movie and a friend of mine, and people will come up to him and start freaking out and have no idea who I am.”

— Lizzy Caplan

13. “I’m also 31 years old. It’s not like I’m some kid who can be slapped across the newspaper pages like some harlot.”

— Lizzy Caplan

14. “I was a late bloomer. I’m not one of those girls who’s like, “I love my body! Hey, everybody, come look at my body!””

— Lizzy Caplan

15. “In fact, the first time I ever got naked on TV was the biggest confidence booster of my life.”

— Lizzy Caplan

16. “I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.”

— Lizzy Caplan

17. “There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I’ve always bucked against that.”

— Lizzy Caplan

18. “My first acting role as a kid was on Freaks and Geeks.”

— Lizzy Caplan

19. “I’m still waiting to hit it big. But there was the moment when I didn’t have to work at the restaurant anymore, which is the milestone for every actor. When your job is just to be an actor and not to have to do anything else.”

— Lizzy Caplan

20. “I find that working with friends is always the goal, even if its just one person. Because the comedy community is kind of insular, its easy to run into people youve worked with, even if you worked with someone on something for a day, or whatever.”

— Lizzy Caplan

21. “None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.”

— Lizzy Caplan

22. “There are some of us who are just born with a more adventurous spirit than others. There are lots of people who would rather do the same thing, and she just was never that.”

— Lizzy Caplan

23. “I feel lucky because most of my friends aren’t married. So I don’t feel that, ‘oh, step on it, you’re thirty.’”

— Lizzy Caplan

24. “I’m actually really proud of how I believe people perceive me in this industry. I worked really hard to be seen in a certain way. I think I get a lot of respect for what I usually do. I find that comedic world completely fulfilling and wonderful and they’re all my best friends.”

— Lizzy Caplan

25. “For the past few years, I’ve been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that’s finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it’s only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.”

— Lizzy Caplan

26. “I think there’s something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It’s just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.”

— Lizzy Caplan

27. “I think it’s necessary to identify with anything – with any character you play, there’s got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it’s like one tiny thing. But it’s equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.”

— Lizzy Caplan

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28. “I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because thats the place I feel the most comfortable – those are the risks I want to take.”

— Lizzy Caplan

29. “I’m really awkward when people recognize me. I’m not good at it, and for the most part it hadn’t happened to me until ‘True Blood,’ and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.”

— Lizzy Caplan

30. “When you get seen in one particular way, it can be paralyzing. You start to believe it’s all you can do.”

— Lizzy Caplan

31. “When you’re shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.”

— Lizzy Caplan

32. “I really unfortunately don’t have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people’s movies and I think that’s the way to do it.”

— Lizzy Caplan

33. “I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I’ve played, but I think I’m pretty similar to the character I’m playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.”

— Lizzy Caplan