“Once you figure out what your passion is, surround yourself with like-minded people who can help you grow.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“The one piece of advice I would give to all girlfriends – or guy friends, too, I guess – is that if you’re going to have a fight in a Baja Fresh parking lot, make sure one of you has an available pair of sunglasses because whoever is crying is going to want to wear them.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“Ten days after my ‘one-step’ reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“For me, the first thing I fell madly in love with when I was little, was, Gilda Radner had this live performance that she had done at the Met that was on tape, and I could rent it from Video Video in New Jersey where I lived, and so I literally would rent it every two weeks.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you’re trying to do – you can’t fake it.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“In my life, I got a haircut junior year of college that was a real wash-‘n-go type of situation. It was short. I had six or seven people say I looked just like Hugh Grant. And I was like, ‘That’s a man. So… that’s not nice.’”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I’m not on Facebook because I can’t open the door to the past.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I’ve been in the emergency room for food poisoning.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I was bored by going to Mommy and Me, and I certainly didn’t want to write about it.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“Keegan-Michael Key and Lindsay Sloane are two of the best, literally, just dramatic actors.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I can’t tell you how many bizarre shows at UCB I was a part of.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn’t my real job. My real job was to be an actor. I always knew that and never forgot that.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“In Hollywood, normally things don’t work out, and dreams are crushed.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I remember watching ‘I Love Lucy’ from an early age, ‘Laverne & Shirley.’”
― Jessica St. Clair
“One of my biggest and most influential was ‘The Golden Girls.’ That show, I remember specific episodes.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I would never knowingly go and date somebody that my friend loved.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“It’s very hard to fake. When you see Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig in ‘Bridesmaids,’ you can tell they really love each other.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I’ve been trying to cram myself down the throats of America for a longer time than I care to remember.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I was so flat-chested in high school that I thought I’d better be funny if guys were going to like me.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“A lot of comedy on television has a reserve to it, and it’s a little too cool for school.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“If you write for somebody that you know, then your job is so much easier.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that’s happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“Even though Laverne and Shirley were always, like, submitting themselves for medical testing and falling asleep on a date or whatever, they always had each other’s back.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I can’t watch most movies because they scare me too much.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I’m so terrified to write that I don’t type at all.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“Darius Rucker is straight up the most charming, handsome man you have ever met in your entire life.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I think the medium of television is so great for women, especially right now, because I feel like with ‘Broad City’ and Amy Schumer and ‘Girls’, the creators are the stars, so their voice is totally pure.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“For Lennon and me, we grew up with Laverne and Shirley or Lucy and Ethel. For us, those are our inspirations. And I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey led the way for us to be fearless in the way we kept shoving our message and our comedy voice down people’s throats until they listened.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“Cancer doesn’t just happen to me; it happens to my best friend; it happens to everyone who means something in my life… The truth is, it does take a village to take care of somebody who’s sick, and so we just, at all times, tried to be authentic to the actual experience we had.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“If I texted somebody that I was having a down day, in seconds I would have somebody either call me or show up at my door.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“Let’s see, what was my favorite of ‘Golden Girls’. Anything Stan was involved with, I was obsessed with.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“’Gilmore Girls’ was a passion of mine, to the point where Lennon actually can’t watch it because if she does, then we might be fully ripping them off.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“’Downton Abbey’. I love all things olden-days, and I’m very interested in somebody brushing my hair out at the end of the night.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“Shortly after I finished chemo, but during my 12 weeks of radiation, Lennon and I returned to work on the third season of the show we write, produce and star in, ‘Playing House.’”
― Jessica St. Clair
“We hope that by sharing my experience – our experience, Lennon and I – that somebody who is going through this process or helping their loved one through it might feel less alone, and might even have some better information for their cancer care.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“In this business, you never really expect a second season of something.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“The truth is that when Lennon is Bosephus, she is so mean to me. She can’t smile because the mustache will come off. So in between takes, it’s just scowling. And then when we are on camera, Bosephus treats me like a piece of meat. I’m repulsed and also attracted to it.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“We’re in this really different world of television where everybody is binge watching, and it almost doesn’t matter where you’re airing.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly wrong.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I had breast cancer.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“Did I still feel like I’d been run over by a Mack Truck? Absolutely. It’s chemo, after all.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“For the readers out there, if your girlfriend says she’s having a girls’ weekend, do not show up with a bottle of rose. No one wants to see your face there.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“If we’re having a tough day, we’ll bring the babies on, and suddenly, these crew guys who have, like, tattoos all over their necks are cooing and fawning.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I found out my baby was visiting Julie Chen a lot, from ‘The Talk’, and my nanny was just like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s Julie. We pop in on her all the time.’”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I love Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox’s real-life relationship.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“What best friends do so well is they just waste time.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I would trust Lennon not only to babysit my child but to raise them. Literally, that’s who I would want to raise my child.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“Lennon has an amazing ability to think before she speaks. She doesn’t have to constantly be talking. She just thinks, and when she speaks, it’s thoughtful. She’s very calm. I’m trying to learn that from her.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“What I love about ‘Modern Family’ is that it makes you laugh, and there’s hilarious physical gags that are outrageous, but there’s real heart to it, and you feel good after you watch it.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I think sometimes when you have 24 episodes, you almost have to stretch things out too much.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I would watch even five minutes of ‘Gilmore Girls’ a day when I was going through a tough time because I was like, ‘I just need to return to where life is simple, and you can get your waffles at Luke’s, and everybody knows your name.’”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I make sure to meditate at least twice a day. I have migraines, and transcendental meditation is hugely helpful in combating them.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I can’t take a traditional yoga class or anything. I’ll just lay down and take a nap on the mat.”
― Jessica St. Clair
“I’m always eating. I eat every three hours.”
― Jessica St. Clair
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