Hannah Gadsby Quotes

Hannah Gadsby

Profession : Comedian

Birth : January 12, 1978

The idea that standup is a thing with defined boundaries is kind of ludicrous.

Hannah Gadsby

#MeToo should not be limited to art or TV.

Hannah Gadsby

The art world doesn't exist in a vacuum.

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I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

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I found that pottering is very conducive to my creative process, so now, I find myself being incredibly creative because I've got such much to procrastinate with.

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We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.

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I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

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Comedy is a man's art form. It pretty much came from a time, post-World War II really - the 1950s are not really known for the subtle expressions of feminine life.

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If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that seems thin for me. That has a place - I don't think it should stop happening - but for me, I don't know. I just don't.

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The only people I don't reach on a very personal level are straight white men. They don't really need another entertainer dedicated for them exclusively, so they're fine.

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Shame has its place. Shame is what you do to a kid to stop them running on the road. And then you take the shame away, and immediately, they're back in the fold. You should never soak anybody in shame. It's the prolonged existence of shame that then flips out into destructive rage. We can't exist in that. It's like treacle.

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Comedy is great in that it's accessible to someone like me, from a low socioeconomic background, struggling in life. The gatekeepers are a lot stronger in other art forms.

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If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

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I've got Asperger's. I come at things from sideways.

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'Nanette' has been a journey. She went from being something of a personal little blast to the world from me, that I expected would seal me off into the margins as far as my career is concerned, and into an idiosyncratic sort of life beyond all of that.

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I've always done live art history lectures and small documentaries in the past in Australia, on Australian art and art galleries, so I've already done a lot of that.

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