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With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.

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Aubrey Plaza
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: June 26
Actor
Actress
Comedian
Film Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Wilmington
Delaware
Aubrey Christina Plaza
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It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.
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My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.
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Improv is so different, it's such a collaborative thing, you're working with other people, nothing is planned and it's kind of this community mentality, whereas stand-up, you're alone and it was really hard.
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I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.
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After you have 250,000 people watching your stuff every day, obviously you're going to have a few people who are going to get a little bit obsessed with your content. But I've never experienced it in a negative way. Perhaps that's because I'm lucky. I guess for some people, they experience it in a negative way and that's how the movie portrayed it.
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I've always wanted to do all kinds of roles, dramatic roles and comedic roles, all kinds of roles.
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Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.
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I'm going to create my own opportunities. If I can't find the roles I want, I'll just make them.
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I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think I’m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally I’m talking really slowly or there’s a lot of silence because there’s just nothing going on. I’m just totally freaking out, but from the outside perspective it looks like I’m in control.
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If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.
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I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.
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I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.
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I'm like that person who hates going to magic shows - and I love magic, I love wizards - but going to a show where there is any possibility of audience participation is a nightmare for me.
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When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.
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Tina Fey is one of my heroes.
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My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.
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Writing is hard - writing is the hardest.
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I don't have many actors in my family, but I do have a Great Uncle that is a film-maker in Philadelphia, and my great-great-grandparents were Flamenco dancers in the 30's in New York, they were Spanish dancers.
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There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.
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Make all your decisions based on how hilarious it would be if you did it.
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