Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Katherine Ryan - Page 2

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.

I started doing little amateur nights at the comedy club that was right next to the restaurant that I waitressed in when I was in university. I was probably 22 years old. I didn't do it with any intention of making a career out of it; I had just always valued comedy.

When you're really famous, there's very little authenticity in people, so you prefer the company of children.

I'm a single mother. It's silly to turn down work.

If I ever move back to Canada, it'll be because I'm terminally ill.

I was a product of the society that said women are for decoration, and I do think girls should be able to do whatever they want.

I have a really different touring life to most comedians because I go home every night to do the school run in the morning. So I'm not in hotels or living it up.

When I talk about celebrities, I don't dislike them - it's what they represent.

I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were, and it wasn't me!

I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.

I'd never say something that I didn't feel I could defend.

I wasn't properly performing in Canada. I was just starting out, and when everyone starts out, they're terrible. I'm sure there are some Kellyanne Conway videos of me just really dying on a stage.

I wanted to be liked when I was younger, which I think a lot of us do; I'm not ashamed to say it. I was a product of my environment, a product of my culture.

I think it's better, if people aren't getting on, that they should divorce.

The Kardashian family have earned their place as an American dynasty.

I'm from that generation where there aren't that many pictures of me as a baby.

I feel like I'm always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.

If I'm in the position where I get to hire someone, where I get to decide who joins me on tour, then I am mindful about that, and I try to suggest women that I know who I think deserve more exposure.

My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.

In Canada, good waitresses are tipped well. I learnt that the harder you work, the more money you make.

One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.

I'm not a Rachel Dolezal. I don't fake tan; I don't have the cornrows, I don't misappropriate. I just want to be Beyonce.

I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.

I really loved making my mom laugh, and I knew that she thought that I was funny. It was really valuable, in my home growing up, to be able to have a chat and participate in a conversation and be funny. Whatever I could do to make my mom laugh could either get me out of trouble or just get me more attention or get me respect in the house.

I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that's happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.

I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary over here, and alternative comedy isn't so alternative.

You'll never make a success of yourself when you're doing an impersonation of somebody else.

I was really lucky to have been raised in this really powerful matriarchy where my dad was around, but I was with my mom and my grandma most of the time. They were heavy influences on me. My mother has a career in technology; my grandma sold real estate.

Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.

Justin Bieber is a lovely chap.

All I've ever wanted to be is a strong, powerful, beautiful black woman.

I thank God every day that there was no YouTube or Twitter when I was a teenager. I would have had a channel, and it would have been mortifying.

We don't have glamour models in Canada at all.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

I don't worry about whether or not people like me.

I love Britain. I'm an Irish citizen, but I was born in Canada, and I'm a British comedian, really. My entire career has been over here.

I didn't really realise that I was going to have more obstacles because I was a woman. It was never something that I thought about.

Every time a journalist will say: "Can women be funny? Can women be pilots? Can women be scientists?" It's less of a question and more of a statement after a while that makes you believe that maybe we can't. I think that's dangerous. I was really happy that I didn't have those barriers, but now I recognize the barriers of many other people.

I do meet people from my act from time to time, They give me a little flicker of worry - 'Have I been unfair?' But I'm usually talking about a greater narrative or a scene. I'm not just destroying them personally, The Cheryl Cole bit isn't about Cheryl Cole so much as our tendency as a celebrity-consuming culture to put people on a pedestal just for what they look like. It's about us and how quickly we shift in terms of approval or disapproval.

I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but the fact of the matter is, just me being a female, immigrant, stand-up comedian, single-mother ... that is political. We still live in a world where a woman with a voice is a political gesture.