Loni Love

“I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.”

“I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love.”

“Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.”

“I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.”

“What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.”

“That's the one thing I have to say to females. If you don't have a certain look, or if you look a certain way, they won't accept you.”

“I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.”

“As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.”

“'SNL' ain't been relevant since Jim Belushi. It's on every week; it's not funny. They need to find some black women to put on there to make it funny.”

“With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.”

“Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.”

“Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through.”

“The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.”

“I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.”

“I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.”

“I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting.”

“I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.”

“Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.”

“The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.”

“I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.”