So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know Quotes

“You have to be happy in your regular life or you’re not going to survive the journey toward a goal.”
― Retta, So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know

“...I learned a valuable lesson that stays with me to this day and plays on a loop in my head any time I have a big audition. It goes a little something like this: "Bitch, stop wasting time fearing the worst! Living through the worst is never as hard as fearing it. Fight the fear and go do what you gotta do. That's what you came here for.”
― Retta, So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know

“The things in your life don't have to be expensive for you to thoroughly enjoy them.”
― Retta, So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know

“And I’m lactose intolerant but if you told me I couldn’t have cheese ever again, I would slap you in your face.”
― Retta, So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know

“People who are going to be successful know it’s gonna happen. And those people tend to hustle until it does happen.”
― Retta, So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know

“No sense in busting my ass when all I want is a good soak”
― Retta, So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know

“So that’s how I went from being Marietta, future brain surgeon, to TV’s Retta. I don’t regret any bit of it. I wouldn't change my experience at duke for anything...most important, it taught me how to ask myself what I wanted and figure out how to get it. So when I ran into that neurosurgeon friend at Chicago O’Hare, jealousy was born out of anxiousness. I was anxious to get where I was going, to become a tv sitcom star, not to get to that Northwestern comedy show. And jealous that she had already reached her surgical destination. I haven’t gotten my sitcom...yet. But I’m not longer jealous of my peers who are all MD’d up.”
― Retta, So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know