Amy Sedaris Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

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

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

I always find something to keep me busy.

I always got along with all types of people - popular people as well as drug addicts.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I have no desire to carry a movie.

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

I listen. I like to give advice. Mostly, I'll just try to listen to my friends, and they'll say the same thing over and over again.

I live in the moment.

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

I swear I want to be a food model.

I'd rather have a part where you walk into a room and you leave. That's perfect for me.

I'm a real domestic person, and when I was doing the TV show, I was usually the first one there and the last one to leave.

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

I'm not a first-place person.

I'm not ambitious.

I'm satisfied just thinking of the idea.

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

It's all about process to me - as long as it's fun to me, I don't care about the final product.

My characters always like themselves.

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

My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.

My little brother Paul. He owns his own floor sanding business called Silly P Hardwood Floors and he's really good.

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.

So all I've been doing is I cook and I clean, and I entertain at my house a lot.

They assume that I want a boyfriend, and yeah, that I'd probably like to have a baby and get married - but they're wrong.

They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

They live between seven and nine years and sometimes they grow up to be teenagers but she said that my rabbit was actually really laid back.

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

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.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

Trivia

Amy says that if she could have a dinner party with anyone, she would want to invite Juliet Low--founder of the girl scouts. She would want to tell Ms. Low how much th egirl scouts influenced her life.

In September 2002, Amy and her brother David released a play that they had co-written, The Book of Liz.

When not acting, Amy runs a homemade cupcake and cheese ball business out of her apartment. She also, occasionally, waits tables at Mary's Fish camp, a restaurant around th ecorner from her apartment.

Amy has written a book, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence.