Mae Martin

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

— Mae Martin

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

— Mae Martin

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises…

— Mae Martin

I can't tell you how much money I waste on plaid shirts, whisky that I hate the taste of, and Moleskine notebooks…

— Mae Martin

Being on stage at the Soho Theatre is hard to beat.

— Mae Martin

I formed a sketch troupe with two friends, started doing gigs, and dropped out of school shortly after to pursue it full…

— Mae Martin

I'm attracted to funny people with nice hands who smell good and are kind to people.

— Mae Martin

I sort of thought acting was just about arranging your face into emotions. I didn't realise it was about actually allowing yourself…

— Mae Martin

I'm talking about personal stuff so I think people are on my side.

— Mae Martin

I don't have much time for the 'sad clown' thing. It's only associated with comedians because of the disparity between feeling like…

— Mae Martin

What audiences see is a curated version of myself.

— Mae Martin

I'd love to write more observational comedy but the stuff people seem to respond to is the most personal so it's snowballed…

— Mae Martin

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or…

— Mae Martin

Watching comedy for the first time I felt absolutely on fire. I just couldn't believe there was this environment where people were…

— Mae Martin

With the 12-step program, if you don't subscribe to that way of life completely, it can be seen as failing, and I…

— Mae Martin

If I had met Bette Midler, I wouldn't be answering these questions right now because I'd have spontaneously combusted and gone to…

— Mae Martin

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

— Mae Martin

It's very weird trying to imagine yourself as a 'comedy character.'

— Mae Martin

How can I tell if I was born hating coconut or developed a hatred of coconut because my father distrusted it as…

— Mae Martin

I want people to see how universal experiences of intimacy are, regardless of demographic or label or whatever.

— Mae Martin

As a child I wanted to be a kind of hybrid of Ferris Beuller, Ace Ventura, Bette Midler, and Lucille Ball.

— Mae Martin

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years…

— Mae Martin

It was a slow process of getting closer and closer to my actual personality on stage. And now there's very little separation.…

— Mae Martin

Don't edit yourself too much. Don't be afraid of looking stupid, 'cool' is so rarely funny I think. And just do it!…

— Mae Martin

In comedy you are allowed to be weird - and even applauded for it.

— Mae Martin