Quotes from 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 from there.

It was a slow process of getting closer and closer to my actual personality on stage. And now there's very little separation. I definitely find the more open and vulnerable I am, the more people enjoy it.

I'm a real romantic, big time.

A Canadian comedian once told me that when you first go out there to imagine that you're actually just going back out for the encore, that all the clapping is because they've already seen you do your thing and they want to see more. You can train your mind to do anything.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

You don't need a murder on a Martian colony. What is more dramatic than love? There's highs and lows, especially in your twenties, when it completely takes you over.

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

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