Mary Lynn Rajskub Quotes

When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you’re just presenting – almost like you’re at the table read. Don’t go in with an air of, ‘Please like me,’ or, ‘Please hire me.’ You’re like, ‘Here’s my take on it. Take it or leave it. I’ve got a lot of other things to do today.’

To really be on stage and not know what you’re going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that’s sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.

The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she’s not just annoying. It’s that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn’t have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

I’m not married and I don’t think that’s going to work out for me. I’m not even bitter, I’m just exhausted.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.