There are people that say you should never use humor to talk about anything that's important or hard, and since I don't believe that, at some point there has to be a level of "agree to disagree." Lizz Winstead More Quotes by Lizz Winstead More Quotes From Lizz Winstead 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. Lizz Winstead views feelings people My curiosity is not a choice. It's always been part of me. I think of it as a vital organ. Lizz Winstead curiosity choices thinking 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? Lizz Winstead creative-space air jobs For me, it's important to elevate the hypocrisy with humor. Then you really are using the humor to elevate the problem, saying this is why it matters, and then saying we can combine the work together with laughing and being around joyful people and helping out. So the comedy sometimes can actually full-on expose the issue, but also it's a gathering tool. It serves a lot of purposes. Lizz Winstead hypocrisy laughing people 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. Lizz Winstead fighting strong rights I'm not sure I'm okay with 2 guys gettin' married, but I don't wanna be a jerk about it. Lizz Winstead married jerk guy You can't solve a problem until you address the problem. Lizz Winstead solve addresses problem 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. Lizz Winstead world It's always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer. Lizz Winstead admire voice fun 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. Lizz Winstead unpacking cat mother Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth. Lizz Winstead nebraska hell earth 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. Lizz Winstead sadness nice moving By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail? Lizz Winstead confidence what-if self We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony. Lizz Winstead elements political insane 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. Lizz Winstead home pregnancy thinking Having an enemy that is visible out in the daylight is a good thing. Lizz Winstead daylight good-things enemy One of the first things Catholic school taught me is that babies were born sinners. You sucked before you took your first breath. Lizz Winstead catholic baby school 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. Lizz Winstead differences baby people The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter. Lizz Winstead lines political matter By laughing, it helps take our power back. Lizz Winstead helping laughing
