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" I had done some small-sketch stuff in college, and at that time, Tina Fey was becoming a heavy influence on my life and my world. I decided I wanted to do what she was doing. "

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" Growing up, I didn't have older sisters or many strong female role models to look up to. Being an adult now and looking back, I realize how much I wanted someone like that. "

Grace Helbig

Now

Look

Looking

" After doing a total of five years of 'Daily Grace,' you kind of get burned out on doing the same thing over and over again, so I am allowing myself to not have totally any specific structure. "

" At some point, we all reach that moment where it's such a waste of energy to act as if you know things that you really don't. It's really kind of liberating to be okay with that. "

" I'm not so interested in what movie a celebrity is promoting or what television show might be premiering. I'm more interested in, 'Does Channing Tatum know how to do laundry?' I guess the more simple, personal sides of people. "

" A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience. "

" When I've done somewhat scripted stuff, it feels a little flat. It feels like there's not much life behind it. "

Grace Helbig

Life

Little

" Being friends with Hannah Hart has been a huge asset in helping me create better content and just becoming a person that I like. So make an effort to find people who inspire you, intimidate you in a positive way, and support you as much as you support them. "

" I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified. "

Grace Helbig

Freedom

Hate

" Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town. "

" It's insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos. "

Grace Helbig

Audience

Difficult

" I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn't a negative. "

" As for my friends, I do have friends that aren't in the entertainment world at all but do interact on social media. I think that's an innate human thing now, to connect via those channels. "

" We're all going to die someday - we might as well have fun. "

" When I started 'DailyGrace,' I was dating a 26-year-old guy I thought was the funniest person in the world. My creation process every day was imagining him watching my videos and wondering, 'Will he laugh at this?' But somehow that's turned into an audience that's mostly 15-year-old girls. "

" I want to do whatever people allow me to do with great people and have a great time doing it. "

" I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them. "

Grace Helbig

Teen

Know

" The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I'm in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they're with me in my apartment. So if I'm listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I'm feeling, it resonates even more that we're having a real, actual conversation. "

Grace Helbig

Experience

Listening

" TV has been my goal since before I started YouTube. "

Grace Helbig

YouTube

Been

" I've always had an appetite for creating in some capacity. "

" My first sketch-writing class was with Kevin Allison from 'The State.' It was so cool. "

" My dad was an insane workaholic, and watching his work ethic gave me a lot of motivation. "

Grace Helbig

Work Ethic

Work

" I realize I've had this spirit-animal relationship with sweatpants. In a past life, I probably was a pair of sweatpants. There's something beautifully simple but highly underestimated about them. "

" The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures. "

" I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, 'Real Housewives.' "

" I imagine 'Daily Grace' as, like, your awkward older sister who tries to give you advice. "

Grace Helbig

You

Sister

" If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV and film and that whole world. "

Grace Helbig

Doing

Comedy

" I obviously try to avoid racism, because that's one thing that I should not be putting on to the Internet. "

" I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone. "

" I had started in the comedy world in a more traditional way. I was auditioning for TV, film, and commercials while I was making these Web videos from my house. "

" You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out. "