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“I don't want that to prevent me from doing anything, because I can do everything.”
“Every time I smile, I look like I'm up to something.”
“Half of being a comedian is knowing how to pace a joke, how to say it, so someone else could be given the same lines, and it won't be as funny.”
“I really like comedy, and making people laugh is one of the few pleasures of being alive. It's a gift - that's how I look at it.”
“I was very excited to meet Queen Latifah at the NAACP Awards a few years ago. She is an idol to me.”
“Look, I'll do anything. I wanna do everything. I'll probably do a travel show at some point, I'd love to do some cooking things or whatever. As long as I get to be myself, which is what comedy allows you to do, how lucky are we?”
“I'm never one to claim a celebrity as a friend unless I know their mama's name or something like that.”
“I just want to be funny and do things! Being hot is work - that's another job.”
“I'll only diet for a Marvel movie. I will give up bacon and waffles to be Storm.”
“When you grow up poor and you work hard, your relaxation comes from laughter. It's such a free vacation.”
“It's not a thing I used to do, but I'm in a position now where I have money for the first time in my life and I can rest.”
“I love physical comedy.”
“I'm not ashamed of my age or anything like that, but for women - and everybody knows it and acts like they don't - it gives an idea of what you are in people's heads.”
“I've had a boss like that, where the things they're saying and doing are awful, but they say it and do it with a smile on their face, which is almost more damaging to you. Because then you think you're crazy!”
“I did a lot of everything to pay my rent.”
“That's hard to write something that makes you laugh out loud.”
“I was attracted to getting to play a bigger personality.”
“I try to type how I speak.”
“I wait till everyone leaves a social media site before I go on. I wait till everyone says it's over and then I'm like, 'I'll start an account now.'”
“I've done everything I possibly can to make my phone think I'm 22. I haven't used capital letters in years.”