A biography for Nicole Byerhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm very silly.”
“People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset.”
“My style is like, if I were to time travel to the '80s or '90s, I would fit in, but they would be like, 'Something's off about her.'”
“Making food is a labor of love - it's a nice thing to do for your loved ones to show you care about them, that you took the time to make them something. But for me, I don't cook. I would much rather hop in my car and go to a restaurant.”
“When I was little, I used to love eating peanut butter sandwiches with tomatoes, and they would have to be on potato bread. I loved them. It's so weird, and I can't imagine eating it now, but I used to love eating them. It's a lot of flavors.”
“No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'”
“Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.”
“In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.”
“I was a server for a while, and I was a very bad one. So when people tipped me well, I felt like it was like, 'Let's get her out of here so she can get a new job.'”
“I wear a lot of vintage, thrifted stuff.”
“I am an archetype. There's the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That's an archetype that exists, but that's not truly me.”
“Let's just let funny people be funny.”
“I'm just - I'm a child.”
“I'm not mean. I can't do a roast.”
“I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.”
“I really like Beyonce. She's a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.”
“If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that's power.”
“I was in a Rite Aid... and fell into a Christmas tree display. None other than Shia LaBeouf helped me out of it.”
“What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.”
“I moved to New York and went to a performing arts college, but it wasn't until UCB that I started performing on the regular, figuring out how I'm funny, why I'm funny, and how to play with an audience.”