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Happy Birthday Rebel Wilson! Celebrate with 9 of Her Most Hilarious Quotes
Great news for people who like to celebrate celebrity milestones: It's Rebel Wilson's birthday! The hilarious actress is turning 28 so we're celebrating the anniversary of her birth with a list of her greatest quotes. Only Wilson could talk about goat cheese and malaria and still be incredibly entertaining. Click through to read her words of wisdom.
She Fangirls Just Like Us
While on Jay Leno’s show she opened up about one of her celeb crushes saying, “I’ve only met [Brad Pitt] once before. Well, I didn’t really meet him. I kind of just stood behind him and smelled his hair. It smelled really good.”
She Cares About Having Energy, Not What She Looks Like
“I don’t really care what I look like that much,” she said. “And I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look and they shouldn’t really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and hopefully healthy. But you know, what you do need is stamina. I don’t ever want to be too unhealthy because writing in a show, starring and producing, you need a lot of energy.”
She Knows The Best Way to Do Disneyland
While in Disneyland for the first time, she went to the illustrious Club 33 for famous people but treated the buffet of amazing food the way you totally should saying, “The way I was brought up is that if you see a buffet you take some home for later…so I just got my handbag, wrapped up stuff in a napkin, and then put it all the bag and the waiter saw me doing it…and he goes, ‘Madam, if you’d like to take some home, perhaps you’d like to use this container.’ So I’m like, ‘Okay!’” And then she filled it up and carried the container of fancy desserts around Disneyland eating while she went which sounds like heaven.
She Has a Way Less Cynical View of America
“There’s some things that you have to learn, like don’t park where there’s red. It took me 15 parking fines to work that out. I thought red…it’s the color of love, so maybe they’d love you to park in the red area. That’s what I thought, and I didn’t realize,” she told Craig Ferguson about the learning curve coming from Australia to America.
She Knows How to Use Her Assets
“A lot of people sing from their chest voice, but I sing from my breast voice” she once said of her vocal chops.
She Became an Actress Because She Got Malaria
“When I graduated school I became a youth ambassador and was stationed in South Africa for a year to spread goodwill across the continent. I got malaria and was put in intensive care, where the doctors gave me a cocktail of drugs so I wouldn’t die,” she described the experience. “I hallucinated that I was at the Oscars and won. It was so real that when I came out of hospital I said, ‘I know this is crazy, but I’m going to become an actress!’”
She's Sassy
“Thanks it was my grandma’s,” she said when Conan O’Brien complimented her “Bitch” necklace.
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She's Very Particular About Cheese
“I’m very addicted to hard cheeses. I don’t do the goat ones. You just think of the goats screaming—Bahhh!—when the cheese is coming out of them,” she said to Jimmy Fallon.