Abbi Jacobson

“We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.”

“You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'”

“I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They're not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways.”

“I sometimes worry that maybe it's better to be really good at one thing than be okay at a couple things.”

“I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.”

“If anything can be art, then anyone can be an artist.”

“We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.”

“I really admire people that do more than one thing. That's sort of the goal, right - to be an artist that can work in any medium. That's what I hope for my career.”

“Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.”

“Everybody has will - you just have to gather it. And I guess you choose where your inspiration comes from and give yourself that permission.”

“I love Maira Kalman. She's an amazing illustrator and writer. I've loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing about, I developed a whole new appreciation. Her work made me observe everything so much deeper and more joyfully.”

“I'm not a political comic.”

“What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh.”

“I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.”

“I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.”

“I'm really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.”

“I recently saw this home video where my brother is playing this character Arsenio Grimley, who is a mix of Arsenio Hall and Ed Grimley - which, clearly, is my parents' doing, because he's, like, 10. He's the host, I'm every guest, and then my dad is Elton John. That was a Saturday night.”

“There haven't been a lot of superhero movies with female leads, and there have been even fewer - if any - that were truly funny. I heard Ant-Man was, but I haven't seen that yet. So, that would be my goal, my dream - to be a super-heroine who's not afraid to be feminine and also not afraid to make people laugh.”

“If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.”

“Everything on 'Broad City' that my character has drawn is my stuff from years and years ago.”