Lauren Miller Quotes

“That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.”

— Lauren Miller

Knowing that the voice wouldn't scream to be heard, they made sure that the world stayed loud with music and movies and 24/7 news and incessant online chatter. If they couldn't silence the whisper, they'd bombard people with other voices. Infinite choices.

— Lauren Miller

“The delicious, semiconscious, edge-of-wonderland kind of sleep, where I'm awake enough to control my dreams but asleep enough to forget that I'm doing it.”

— Lauren Miller

“Even without Lux, I never would've ordered this," I pointed out. "I hate two of the four ingredients."
"Ah, but there are seven ingredients. And so what if you hate two of them? The fact that I hate Russian dressing doesn't diminish my enjoument of a good Reuben sandwich. Ours is amazing, by the way.”

— Lauren Miller

“If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.”

— Lauren Miller

“I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor's degree in 2003.”

— Lauren Miller

“I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.”

— Lauren Miller

“After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.”

— Lauren Miller

“From a very young age, I wanted to be an actor, but I lived in a very small town in Florida where there weren't any opportunities for that.”

— Lauren Miller

“Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.”

— Lauren Miller

“Girls will go see anything. They're open and excited to go to the movies and laugh.”

— Lauren Miller

“I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.”

— Lauren Miller

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

— Lauren Miller

“I'm definitely one of those people who think that everything you do leads up to the moment where you are now.”

— Lauren Miller

“It was really exciting to see how 'Bridesmaids' was accepted and how well it did.”

— Lauren Miller

“When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.”

— Lauren Miller

Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder.

— Lauren Miller

'Bridesmaids' proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

— Lauren Miller

I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience of working with Steve Starkey for three years. I watched him produce some gigantic movies.

— Lauren Miller

“We have over an hour of footage with Ken Marino. Same with Kevin Smith. Because you never know, when you let people who are so talented at improv go, what you're going to get. You don't want to strangle them with your own words, because probably what they're going to say is way better.”

— Lauren Miller

When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, 'Oh, God, this is not right.' When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor.

— Lauren Miller

Every constellation's like its own fairy tale.

— Lauren Miller