Iliza Shlesinger

Comedian

1983-02-22

Iliza Shlesinger is an American comedian, writer, and television host. She is known for stand-up specials and for winning NBCs Last Comic Standing.

Quotes by Iliza Shlesinger

My hair is just like five pieces of very soft straw that needs managing. I touch my hair a lot, and that makes it crazy.
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I really wanted to do a deep-dive into the idea that women are always called 'crazy,' and we are painted with such broad strokes because it's so easy to stereotype women and write them off. I got tired of that, and I wanted to explain: We are not crazy. There's a method to our madness.
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Whenever I play Las Vegas, they always give you a suite, and it's really nice, and it always comes with a large bathtub.
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I'm certainly not a supermodel.
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I'm not winning any modeling awards, I'm not a Rhodes Scholar, but I genuinely feel that if you're taking time out of your day and your energy to comment on my art, then I got your attention.
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I think part of being Jewish is that innate desire to question things. Rabbis sit around all day and question the Torah. Giving yourself the room to question things, in a religion, just breeds thinking.
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Standup is a tough job and a gritty job.
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We're so hard on ourselves, and there's a freedom in realizing that we're our toughest critics.
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The amount of garbage that women are expected to put up with - we're just expected to ignore when a man whistles at us. And it never makes us feel good - it always makes us feel unsafe.
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A very long time ago, I accepted that travel is just a necessary evil, and unlike many things in my life, I decided going with the flow would make it less painful.
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