Quotes by Amy Sedaris

About Amy Sedaris:

Amy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is known for playing Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy. She regularly collaborates with her older brother David, a humorist and author.
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There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

Amy Sedaris

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

Amy Sedaris

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

Amy Sedaris

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

Amy Sedaris

People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.

Amy Sedaris

People always think I'm Amy Poehler, which never bothers me. I mean, Amy Poehler is great.

Amy Sedaris

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great.

Amy Sedaris

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but the...

Amy Sedaris

Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

Amy Sedaris

When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out; I'm not good at it.

Amy Sedaris

A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.

Amy Sedaris

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Amy Sedaris

Usually I'm the one asking somebody to do something because I don't know how to finish it. I'm like, 'Do this for me' because I'm just resistant to learning.

Amy Sedaris

I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to make things. I don't break that down to be weakness, or the only things women can do, or putting me back 20 years.

Amy Sedaris

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

Amy Sedaris

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

Amy Sedaris

But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.

Amy Sedaris

I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

Amy Sedaris

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

Amy Sedaris

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next time I do your show.

Amy Sedaris

I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that hap...

Amy Sedaris

Author Bio

  • NameAmy Sedaris
  • DescriptionAmerican comedian
  • BornMarch 29, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Novelist