Author: Maria Bamford

Quotes

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

- Maria Bamford

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

- Maria Bamford

Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.

Get out of your house and go see some live performance, for God's sake. There are people creating things just outside your window.

- Maria Bamford

I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth.

I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth.

- Maria Bamford

I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

- Maria Bamford

I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.

I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.

- Maria Bamford

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.

- Maria Bamford

It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much.

It's always the compliments from people you love that mean so much.

- Maria Bamford

Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

- Maria Bamford

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