When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you. Rachel Bloom More Quotes by Rachel Bloom More Quotes From Rachel Bloom The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. 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 person out there isn't dating a writer. Rachel Bloom sexy intelligent writing When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And I think that fear is in part why I turned to comedy because I had no expectations of being a comedian. It was exciting to get good at something where I wasn't afraid of not being the best. Rachel Bloom self-worth expectations thinking That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite. Rachel Bloom effort quality team If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it. Rachel Bloom utopia would-be world I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor. Rachel Bloom emotional actors acting There is so much more to me than my parts and what I wear, what my clothes are. Rachel Bloom clothes It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage. Rachel Bloom being-a-woman advantage giving Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material. Rachel Bloom rights writing men Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on. Rachel Bloom heart writing fun Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before. Rachel Bloom voice people way I was bullied a lot in middle school, and my bullies have since all apologized. Rachel Bloom bullied bully school 'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist. Rachel Bloom cutting artist Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women. Rachel Bloom i-can people thinking I didn't have a sense of how to dress. I still don't really, but, like, back then, I truly had no sense of how to dress because I wanted to be a tomboy - I thought I was a tomboy, but secretly wanted to be girly, but didn't know the first thing about making myself girly. So I ended up like wearing just like sweatpants to school with, like, long T-shirts that I got on family vacations. And it was just weird. Rachel Bloom vacation girly school I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music. Rachel Bloom inspired comedy stills You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I'm going to go out, I'm going to wear high heels, you know, short skirt or whatever. But the high heels are quite uncomfortable, and so how good about yourself are you really feeling walking out in high heels? Rachel Bloom empowering high-heels song If you let love solve everything for you, you have a lot of problems. Rachel Bloom solve problem ifs I think I have learned to really get out of the mathematical side of myself that looks at story and story structure and go with, "Okay, well, what would people do in real life?" Rachel Bloom real people thinking As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?' Rachel Bloom girl ifs young My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.' Rachel Bloom grandpa growing-up noses
