Nicole Byer Quotes

Nicole Byer

Profession : Comedian

Birth : August 29, 1986

I don't get dressed for other people. I get dressed for what I see in the mirror. My body isn't for other people's consumption. If I smile when I look in the mirror, then great. Let's start the day.

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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.

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Red Lobster reminds me of my dad because he would always get coupons and be like, 'We're going to treat ourselves.'

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I like sweet-and-salty things.

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Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would look people in the face and be like, 'Your snake cake's not good.'

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I love UCB Chelsea. There is, to me, no stage like it.

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No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'

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Comedy is subjective, so if you don't like it, that's fine.

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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.

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I don't have any plans to ever diet again, but exercising does help with life. Endorphins are real, and it's annoying because I don't like to exercise. I hate running, but I started weightlifting, like, 150 pounds, and it's fun, and it makes me feel accomplished.

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I'm not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.

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I just woke up one day was like, 'People know you're fat whether you have a cardigan on or your arms are out, so why not just let your arms be out because you're hot.'

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If you want to change your body, that's well within your means to do that, but if you don't want to change your body, you need to accept it and embrace it.

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Be comfortable in your skin.

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I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

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If someone goes, 'Can you be sassier?' I go, 'I can be my kind of sassier. I'm not gonna put a voice on. The voice I have is my voice.'

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It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.

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The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.

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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.

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What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me that weren't just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead, because that's breaking through.

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