Latest Amy Schumer Quotes from Interviews

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• I just want to get the most money I can.

  Amy Schumer

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I want to make women laugh. I want to make them feel beautiful in their own skin. I want to empower them to use their voice and not apologize.

  Amy Schumer

  Beautiful, Laughing, Empowering

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I care about what the people I care about think about me. It's a short list, but I really care about what those people think.

  Amy Schumer

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I have gotten death threats - that was scary. But it just made me want to use my voice more.

  Amy Schumer

  Scary, Threat

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I've never slept with anyone who could help me at all. No one. I wish I had. If anything, everyone I've had sex with has been a real step in the wrong direction.

  Amy Schumer

  Real, Wish, Helping

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right.

  Amy Schumer

  Girl, Growing Up, Mean

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I don't try to be feminist. I just am. It's innately inside me. I have no interest in trying to be the perfect feminist, but I do believe feminists are in good hands with me.

  Amy Schumer

  Believe, Perfect, Feminist

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis.

  Amy Schumer

  Song, Syphilis, Sixteen

  Source: www.popmatters.com

• I always did plays, I got the comedic roles in college ... or, uh, the ones that would get naked.

  Amy Schumer

  College, Play, Naked

  Source: www.popmatters.com

• I call myself a comic.But I started as an actress. I did plays since I was 5.

  Amy Schumer

  Play, Actresses, Comic

  Source: www.popmatters.com

• The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it.

  Amy Schumer

  Stories, Firsts, Truth Is

  "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

• I'm still proud of a lot of my jokes when I started.

  Amy Schumer

  Proud, Stills, Jokes

  "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

• I completely identify as female, believe it or not.

  Amy Schumer

  Believe, Female

  "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

• I've got a terrible person in me just as much as anybody else, and I think - I like to think I also have a really good person in me.

  Amy Schumer

  Thinking, Good Person, Terrible

  "Play Ball! Comedian Amy Schumer Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 4, 2014.

• Some street jokes are just timeless. There's an old street joke about comedians. The joke is that a beautiful girl comes up to a comedian at the end of the night and says, "I saw your show tonight, and I just loved it. I want to go home with you, and I'll do anything you want." And the comedian says, "Were you at the 7 or the 9?" That's just a perfect joke, because it points out how egomaniacal and obsessive comedians are. Even though I'm not waiting for a groupie, I can completely understand it. It just defines how comedians are driven.

  Amy Schumer

  Beautiful, Girl, Home

• I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows?

  Amy Schumer

  Get Better, Want, Imagine

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

• I understand why so many female comics quit or change their path, because it is hard. It's hard to be a comedian, and people have so much aggression towards women. I don't really know where that comes from, but I feel a total responsibility, and I'm gonna do my part, to continue on the path that I'm on.

  Amy Schumer

  Responsibility, People, Comedian

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

• The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy. I loved Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn movies. I just wanted to laugh. I liked women in comedy, and I liked male comics as I got a little older. My interests just never matched up with other girls'.

  Amy Schumer

  Girl, Night, Laughing

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

• I may sound like a megalomaniac, but I feel like I'm equipped to become a great, memorable comedian, if I keep working my ass off and staying at the pace I'm at, and I feel a responsibility to do that because of the women who have done it before me, and the ones who need to do it after me.

  Amy Schumer

  Memorable, Responsibility, Comedian

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.

• My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.

  Amy Schumer

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

• Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.

  Amy Schumer

  Thinking, Years, Stage

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

• Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that in a Roast situation. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo.

  Amy Schumer

  Children, Cancer, Writing

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

• Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.

  Amy Schumer

  Hard Work, Way, Comedy

• I'm not extra sensitive to handshakes. I shake hands all the time.

  Amy Schumer

  Hands, Sensitive, Shakes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Everyone is allowed to have their own boundaries. You just are. No matter how you dress, no matter what you say or anything, and I feel strongly about that.

  Amy Schumer

  Dresses, Matter, Boundaries

  Source: www.avclub.com