A biography for Janelle Jameshasn’t been written yet.
“Kids are just very blunt.”
“I think most Black women are funny. Whether we get credit or not, we just are; we're hilarious.”
“I'm actually just a chatterbox more than a class clown.”
“I am a confident person. This isn't something that I've always been, it's something I've worked on.”
“I'll turn down money over experience any day.”
“To see a Black woman play this type - the goofy, layabout boss, a role usually reserved for white men - it's like, we can quiet-quit as well.”
“I like the old way of celebrity where you only saw them when they had projects to promote. You saw them do their work, and then that was it. The people that I admire live like that. Queen Latifah, you never see her unless she has something to sell or promote or doing some good deed.”
“Some people are like, 'Well, I'm always going to be making money, so I'm just going to spend it.' That's not necessarily how I think.”
“I've always been, like, a book-smart person; I'm very into language and reading, and that really lends itself to comedy, because you have to know how to communicate.”
“The ability to be funny in real life and be funny onstage or onscreen are two different things.”
“I suppose I'll do my dramatic turn that comedians do at some point, I'll do my 'Patch Adams' or what not.”
“I've always been a sarcastic person and people I dated would say, 'Oh, you're hilarious,' but it never occurred to me to be a comedian.”
“I'll maybe write a book - I wish people read more. But I don't know about developing and starring in a show myself.”
“I can admire people without being a weirdo about it.”
“Everybody hates me because I don't have any of those stories about the one teacher who touched my life.”
“There's some places where it will be a white person telling you that they can write for Black people better than you can. That's wild!”
“My goal is to do the best performance with what was given to me, and if I get a couple of zingers in there, that's all gravy.”
“There're so many men walking around with confidence that's unearned. If women do the same, they're monsters. I'm confident in my abilities, confident that I'm funnier than most people. That's not even my ego, that's years in the game.”
“It's supposedly difficult to work with kids, but if you just remember that they're kids, you're chill.”
“You never know where people come from or what they've been through, and you meet them in the middle.”