Lizz Winstead Quotes

If you're a woman and you've decided to step in front of people on any kind of platform and say that you have feelings about anything, you are committing a radical act. People view it as such, so you might as well actually commit a radical act.

I'm Catholic. My mother and I were unpacking and she found my diaphragm. I had to tell her it was a bathing cap for my cat.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

When you go out for drinks, tell people to bring in a news story that made them say "Oh my god." Talk about it.

My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

I did the Daily Show, and then I did Air America Radio, and I realized that I was lucky enough to have a job where I could get information to people. But those spaces weren't appropriate to then tell people what to do - they were corporate enterprises. My main job was to be funny, so I was trying to figure out, how can I combine all the things I love - comedy, feminism, calling out bullshit - into a creative space that other creative people would want to join in and help out?

If you want to effect change, start small.

Nowadays everybody's a feminist - male, female, trans. Gender's so passé they don't even care anymore. They know what equal rights are, they know what it's about, and everybody is standing toe-to-toe strong about it and really fighting.

I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it.

It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.

I think that if you see that people are laughing, you know they haven't given up hope. You see that people are laughing because everyone has identified the collective hypocrisy of a law or of a politician who is crafting those laws. It's really nice to know that you can have a range of emotion on an issue. You can feel outrage, you can feel sadness, you can find humor, and all of those things are part of coping and dealing, and really, they give you an inspired way of moving forward as you fight.

By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth.

This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to find your own coven of bad-asses that you trust and want to empower.

Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

We live in a nation where corporations are people.

One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath.

I feel like the world has just become a polyester suit that's smoldering, melting, and at some point we have to figure out how to extinguish it.

And home pregnancy tests? They are so last century. Nowadays, I think there's an app that calls your iPhone to warn you that if you finish that third cosmo, you may wind up with a wombmate.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation.

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.

Just talk about the issues that are impacting you and your friends.