This Will Only Hurt a Little Quotes

“No one is going to tell you all the things you want to hear all the time. You have to know them yourself.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“You can have all the money and success in the world, but when you're a fucking asshole, you're a fucking asshole and that's all there is to it.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“I've determined that just about everyone feels left out; it just comes down to how you handle it. I haven't handled it the best, historically speaking. And truthfully, isn't there something incredible about the fact that we all feel left out? Shouldn't that somehow make us all feel a little less alone??”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“Men love a woman who laughs at the joke, especially if the joke is at her expense. “She’s so cool. She just gets it.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“It was hard to imagine living in a world where women are so truly reviled that a man can brag about abusing them and still get elected president. But I did live in that world. Clearly.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“I’ve now heard from multiple people that he has it out for me. Oh well. Do your best, Scott Bell. You were always a fucking cunt.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“There are certain people who are what I call sparkly humans. These are people who have things just happen for them or to them because other people see them and seemingly inexplicably want to help them. Because they sparkle. From the inside out. I was always a sparkly human (still am, for the most part, on most days). Adults just liked me and wanted to help me. Not kids at my school. Sometimes sparkliness isn’t recognized by peers until much later. Sometimes sparkly people are even bullied as kids. Because other kids want to put that light out. They don’t understand it and they want to kill it. The secret is, if you’re truly sparkly, you survive all that bullshit and you don’t let them put it out. And at some point, you start to get rewarded for it. Sparkly humans aren’t always entertainers, and they don’t always become famous. There are sparkly humans everywhere. And there are also plenty of people who are wonderful and amazing, but aren’t sparkly. It’s a very specific thing.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“No one is going to tell you all the things you want to hear all the time. You have to know them yourself.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“There are certain people who are what I call sparkly humans.”
― Busy philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“My parents were the type who had those weird age rules that in retrospect seem so arbitrary, like I couldn't get my ears pierced when I was twelve, I couldn't get contacts until eighth grade (why eighth grade? I had to wear glasses forever), and I wasn't supposed to wear makeup until high school. HIGH SCHOOL! Like two years after seventh grade.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“By middle school, the popular kids were all dating and "going out", but my friends and I were content to just hang out with each other, listening to Boyz II Men or watching Pretty Woman for the millionth time.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“The popular girls did things like have coed parties and kiss their boyfriends in sixth grade and wear Esprit and big earrings and read Sweet Valley High. We played games like Store for the Stars where we would take "business meetings" (which consisted of ordering iced teas and bread baskets at Buster's, a local bistro we would ride our bikes to), and we read the Baby-Sitters Club (way less cool) and the only boys we were friends with had no interest in kissing any of us.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“From my birth to age six, my family lived in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Both my parents grew up there. In fact, they had met as high school students at Oak Park High and began dating when they were just sixteen. They didn't go to prom together because, as my mother puts it, "your dad wanted to go with a big-boobed cheerleader.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“Here's the thing: It's not easy to be a woman in this business. There will always be jokes about your body. There will always be guys who steal your best ideas and pass them off as their own. There will always be actors who push you to the ground. There will always be networks that ask you to lose weight. There will always be jobs you will not get based on your looks. And the men will continue to support one another and show up for one another and hire one another, but if YOU want to stick around, girl, you better be damn sure you smile when they ask and wear a low-cut top to your network test and lose the fucking weight and let them take credit for your words because YOU are expendable. At some point, I started to not care if I was expendable.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“A few minutes later, Jennifer Lopez - looking as if she had a permanent Instagram filter attached to her face and body - scooted in and said a soft hi to me before turning her attention to the returns.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little

“He put his arm around me and kissed me sweetly on the forehead. “Okay, Buddy. If that’s what you want to do, I’m sure you can do it.” Of course I can. I’m Busy Philipps. Have we met? I say I’m going to do something, and then I go, and I fucking do it. I wanted to go for a walk around the block when I was two. And I went. I wanted to get out of Arizona. And I did. I wanted to be in TV shows and movies. And I was. I wanted this life. And I got it.”
― Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little