I’ve loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother’s a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I’m offended as a writer first and as a person second. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
There’s so many confusing messages that you’re being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It’s very hard to navigate. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
I lived with Ilana Glazer of ‘Broad City.’ She was my roommate for a year and a half. I was living with her just as she was creating and filming ‘Broad City.’ Both of us, and a lot of my friends, come from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater either in New York or L.A. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret. Rachel Bloom Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
