Nicole Byer Quotes

Nicole Byer

Profession : Comedian

Birth : August 29, 1986

I've always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I'm not very athletic, so I've never won a sports award. So, I'm a mediocre person.

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Dogs are very strange, but they're wonderful and they love to cuddle, and their breath is so stinky!

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I was in a Rite Aid... and fell into a Christmas tree display. None other than Shia LaBeouf helped me out of it.

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I think I saw 'Ghost' at, like, 6 or 7 - like, a little too early to see 'Ghost' - but I would watch Whoopi over any kids' thing. Everything she did was so funny, and all of her scenes are almost like sketches.

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I've said it before, but I'll say it again because you can't say it enough: Your skin is beautiful - dark, light, in the middle, whatever. Brown is beautiful. Your hair is beautiful. If you wear a weave, it's beautiful. If you choose to be natural, that's beautiful. Also, you are enough.

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You don't need someone to complete you.

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I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.

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Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.

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Let's just let funny people be funny.

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I hate that there's such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!

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I've lived an interesting life.

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During my 20s, I truly said 'yes' to everything, whether it was a good idea or not.

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L.A. may be easy for the beautiful because it's the land of the beautiful.

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My mom was like, 'You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don't you just join the play or something?' It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.

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Talking-head shows are just a camera, a sound guy, and then a PA writing down what you say and a producer asking you questions. And you're just supposed to rephrase the question and add a joke to it. Figuring out how to do that was super hard.

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In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

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It's easier to cast yourself in something you've written because you know your voice.

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I really like Beyonce. She's a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.

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I don't preach body positivity - I'm just okay with the body I'm in and say, 'I love me, so you should love you.'

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I wear a lot of vintage, thrifted stuff.

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