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Maya Rudolph

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The sketch-comedy and ensemble film landscape of the early 2000s gave American performers a wide range of platforms to work across television, film, and live performance simultaneously. Maya Rudolph, born on July 27, 1972, in Gainesville, came up through that world as an actor, comedian, singer, and voice actor whose career has spanned all of those formats.

Rudolph attended the Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences and later the University of California, Santa Cruz, before training at The Groundlings, the Los Angeles comedy school and theater. In 2000 she joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, and from there moved into film work. She appeared in 50 First Dates in 2004, then took roles in two 2006 films — A Prairie Home Companion and Idiocracy — demonstrating a range that moved between ensemble comedy and more broadly cast productions. Her work as a voice actor has run alongside her live-action career, giving her a presence in animated projects as well.

That range has been recognized with two Primetime Emmy Awards: one for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series and one for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. The voice-over Emmy in particular marks her as one of the relatively few performers to be honored in both a live-action performance category and an animation one, making those two awards a concrete measure of where her work has landed with the television industry.

Quotes by Maya Rudolph

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.
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I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.
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Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion Don’ts in my day.
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Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion Don’ts in my day.
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I don’t know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.
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I don’t know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.
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Honestly, because it’s my third, I feel like I’ve been pregnant for like six years, seriously.
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Honestly, because it’s my third, I feel like I’ve been pregnant for like six years, seriously.
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There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn’t be here to see this.
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There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn’t be here to see this.
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I’ve never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don’t really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
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I’ve never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don’t really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
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The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they’re your children.
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The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they’re your children.
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If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it’s better than nothing.
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If my time with my kids is shorter than it was yesterday, it’s better than nothing.
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Most of my life I didn’t feel very normal. There’s definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I’ve finally graduated and I’m a normal lady.
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Most of my life I didn’t feel very normal. There’s definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I’ve finally graduated and I’m a normal lady.
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I don’t look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I’m tired and happy and I’ve had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.
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I don’t look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I’m tired and happy and I’ve had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.
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