Kathryn Hahn Quotes

I'm such a grandma. I don't tweet; I don't have a Facebook page.

I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'

You find your tribe and you stick with them.

My awesome career has been nothing but chaos. Whatever comes toward me feels like the right thing to do in the moment and that's great.

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

Everything you think you're supposed to feel even, or do. When it doesn't match up with what everything that the culture is telling you to do, you feel like a failure.

I'm very tactile. I'm a big hugger, one of those huggy people.

I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and developing a new character.

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.

I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

You can probably ask my husband, and he might tell you differently, but I feel very much like I'm kind of cautious in my real life.

There's something about looking at society's expectation of what [motherhood] is and tipping it.

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

There are some days where, at the end of the day, you've done OK. It's the most out-of-control feeling you possibly can have.

I'm really grateful that my baby daddy is incredibly involved. But there's certain things I wish he could just telepathically know.

I have impossible standards.

Women just get really hard on each other.

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.

I'm perfect. We're all perfect.

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.