Amy Schumer Quotes

United States, Comedian
June 1, 1981

Amy Beth Schumer is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She ventured into comedy in the early 2000s before appearing as a contestant on the fifth season of the NBC reality competition series Last Comic Standing in 2007. Since 2013, she has been the creator, co-producer, co-writer, and star of the Comedy Central sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, for which she received a Peabody Award and for which Schumer has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Outstanding Variety Sketch Series in 2015.

Also known as Actress

I have a healthy relationship with food. My problem is, as a comic, I eat dinner late. But I'll have a smoothie for breakfast every morning, and I keep it pretty low-carb and healthy during the day. At night, I'll have a basic protein, quinoa, and vegetables.

Amy Schumer
- Pretty
- Night
- Food
I want people to live to their full potential, not to hold themselves back because of insecurities, and especially not women. I see too much of that.

Amy Schumer
- People
- Women
- Live

I think you can go from being not very funny to working really hard for 10 years and figuring out how to make a living on the road, but I don't think you can rise much above that.

Amy Schumer
- Funny
- Road
I'm insanely close to my sister.

Amy Schumer
- Sister
It's not hard for me to be funny. But it's really hard. I don't think a lot of people are funny. I meet a lot of people, and most of them aren't funny.

Amy Schumer
- People
- Funny
A big part of becoming a funny person was a major defense mechanism. Onstage, especially as a woman, I've had to be really tough. The second you show a crack, the audience can literally leave.

Amy Schumer
- Funny
I can't hide my feelings. I'm efficient. I've always been that way.

Amy Schumer
I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

Amy Schumer
- Value
- Dark

I am very into making up my own rules.

Amy Schumer
- Up
I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.

Amy Schumer
- True
- Mad
I was always like that, at 5 years old, just demanding equality. I thought it could all be fixed if you called attention to it.

Amy Schumer
- Attention
- Equality
I love being in my own skin, and I hope other women start feeling better about themselves and waste less energy being ashamed of their bodies.

Amy Schumer
- Women
- Hope
- Feeling