46 Quotes by Mae Martin

People have referred to me as 'innocent', which makes me feel disingenuous.

It's a universal experience to be compulsively doing something that's damaging your life.

Making someone laugh is a good way to get their defences down so that they might then be open to new ideas, especially when they're laughing at some common ground they relate to. Comedy's always been an amazing tool for social change.

I'm talking about personal stuff so I think people are on my side.

If I could go back and tell 13-year-old self that I would be on screen with Lisa Kudrow, spending my birthday on a ghost train in Blackpool with her, I would have been beside myself.

With the 12-step program, if you don't subscribe to that way of life completely, it can be seen as failing, and I think a lot of people can take the parts of that kind of program that they need and not other parts.

I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me.

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

You don't need a murder on a Martian colony. What is more dramatic than love? There's highs and lows, especially in your twenties, when it completely takes you over.