Abbi Jacobson

“I had this job where I had to cold call people, and that was terrifying to me, and that was on a far different level than invading their space.”

“Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.”

“I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.”

“I will say that a lot of art, some of the best art, has very powerful and meaningful messages behind it, and the more you read the stuff on the walls, the more you learn the artist's intention, and you have a totally new point of view of what it's about.”

“I drew a lot. I always had sketchbooks. My parents were really great about any gift-giving holiday - birthdays, Hanukkah, Christmas - it was always art supplies for my brother and I.”

“I would love to be at a place where a girl character can also be a role model for young boys.”

“I always have a good pen with me.”

“I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.”

“I'm from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It's also the only time I have vacation.”

“We live in such a celebrity-driven culture, but all those people have to go buy toilet paper, and all those people have products they use and their favorite sweet treats. They all have to write to-do lists, and they're all reading books - well, hopefully most people are doing those things.”

“I am obsessed with the painter Jonas Wood, but I don't think I'll ever be able to afford one of his paintings. He's an L.A.-based painter; his stuff is incredible.”

“I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.”

“Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that can cross those lines of drama and comedy so seamlessly as Amy Ryan.”

“When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.”

“I find young people talk about what they want to do, which is great because you get to form the words, but its also like, you gotta just get in there.”

“I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.”

“I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.”