Rachel Bloom Quotes

American - Actress Born: April 3, 1987

For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me. Rachel Bloom

Love, Me, Better, Word, Infatuation

I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair. Rachel Bloom

Work, Beach, Hair, Anxiety, Growing Up

I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide. Rachel Bloom

Love, Music, Best, Think, Comedy, Done

When we're obsessed with someone, it's never about them. It's about us hating ourselves. And that's generally the tone of a lot of my videos, which is this desperate character who's overcompensating with being super happy. But she's broken. Rachel Bloom

Character, Happy, Broken, Never, She, Us

It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew? Rachel Bloom

God, Woman, You, Look, Young, Career

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics. Rachel Bloom

Love, Flower, Music, Sky, Love Is, Dark

My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing? Rachel Bloom

Think, Doing, You, Honest, Development

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid. Rachel Bloom

Children, Loneliness, Myself, Friends

I had a relationship where we found out each other's Facebook passwords and would check each other's messages. That's not healthy. Rachel Bloom

Relationship, Healthy, Check, Facebook

Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.' Rachel Bloom

Singing, Me, Gun, Back, Kid, Tan

I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel. Rachel Bloom

Music, Doing, Three, New, Well, Years

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it. Rachel Bloom

Age, Growing Up, Growing, Up, Until

Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that. Rachel Bloom

Good, Tired, People, Think, Story, Black

The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Rachel Bloom

Intelligence, I Am, Attracted, Am, Thing

While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer. Rachel Bloom

Great, Dating, Create, Know, Awesome

I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret. Rachel Bloom

Legs, Like, Secret, Something, Things

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out. Rachel Bloom

School, Fun, Me, Middle School, Guy, Ask

I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.' Rachel Bloom

Think, Church, Television, Go, Everyone

I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won't get heard. Rachel Bloom

Women, Together, Woman, You, Will, Two

It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family. Rachel Bloom

Family, White, Why, Want, Harvard, Going

I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel. Rachel Bloom

Depression, Humor, Lie, Darkness, Feel

We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women. Rachel Bloom

Love, Women, Time, Love Is, You, Need

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group. Rachel Bloom

Writing, School, Me, Comedy, Group, Want

For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again. Rachel Bloom

Good, Time, Live, Myself, College, Speak

Most of my stuff hasn't gone viral. I have been successful on YouTube and I'm very proud of the stuff that I've done, but compared to the people who are actual internet stars and making a living off of it, my views are nothing. Rachel Bloom

Stars, People, Proud, Internet, Done

The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it. Rachel Bloom

Time, Effort, View, You, Now, Website

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