Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Lolly Adefope

I think sometimes as an actor your career and life are kind of dependent on other people's decisions, what other people tell you, what time other people tell you to get up in the morning, what lines people tell you to say.

I live with my boyfriend, but we never cook together. It's too stressful.

The thing that attracted me the most was comedy acting and people like Catherine Tate and Olivia Colman; people doing funny voices and accents.

Yeah, Patrice Johnson is an incredible actress. She makes it real easy to cry when she cries.

I was a very dramatic pre-teen.

I've learned to adapt to a situation, to make the best of it.

Comedy is changing. The appetite for more diverse stories is getting bigger.

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

I remember someone told me Donald Trump may not leave after the election. It seemed like a fictional, almost science-fiction idea.

Our generation are always go-getting, hustling.

Fat people aren't just fat people; they have so many layers to them, just like anybody else, that I think should be explored.

TV is kind of messed up in terms of stereotypes and who plays the leading man and leading lady.

You have to look at the effects of something like 'Little Britain,' of how the stereotypes it pushes has impacted society and the way people interact with each other.

One evening, I read David Nicholls' book 'One Day,' because our flat was a few streets down from Rankeillor Street, where the first chapter is set.

Rihanna has revolutionized the beauty and lingerie industries, and that has an impact on the mental health of young women, who are measured by their beauty.

Making people laugh, I think, is very powerful.

I think not getting into Cambridge was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me.

I think there should be an app that's like Tinder, but it's to connect people at the same bars/restaurants who are both waiting for someone that's running late.

When I was about six years old I decided to make a teddy bears' picnic in our dining room, so I set up 10 dolls and teddy bears around the table and made them each an apricot jam sandwich. It was only when I sat down that I realized I'd made 10 apricot jam sandwiches for 10 inanimate objects, and that I'd have to eat them all.

A lot of people just kind of act as if it's their God-given right to be overpaid and on TV, but it just feels like there has to be a level of like: 'This is an exciting thing to be doing.' It's not just something that we're owed.

There was a point when I was doing loads of shows that weren't getting a series two and I was like, 'One day, I'll be in a show that comes back.'

Boots radiates a unique kind of class - not a glamour, but enough self-respect to not degrade itself with an in-store radio station.

It always felt that there were a lot of shows where there was a white lead female, who was attractive, and then I was being offered the kooky friend. And it was just like, 'Why can't this be the other way around?'

It's freeing to be that person who people turn around to look at, wondering who could have a laugh that loud.

I want to keep the British side of my sense of humor.

My friends wonder how I have the patience to engage with people on Twitter about topics such as diversity and why black British history should be taught in schools: surely it's exhausting? And they're right.

I think with 'Ghosts' it's slightly affected my image of what ghosts would be. Before I didn't really think about it that much.

Comedy is a cool thing, because, at least in my experience, if you're good at it and people know, they'll find out about you.

I didn't get into drama school after university. Looking back, I think I was really bad.

Not many stores can boast the unmatched variety that Boots has.

I'm allergic to a lot of fruit and veg, but if I hide them in a drink, somehow my body doesn't notice.

I'm such a good best friend.

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk about what I want to talk about.

If I'm doing different accents, I feel like I'm acting. If I'm doing my own accent, I feel like I'm saying someone else's dialogue as myself.

I'm very willing to cut people off if they betray the people that I love.

When I was in Year 10 I saw a girl on 'X Factor' with a really great, huge afro, so I went to the hairdresser's to get a weave and achieve the same look. She somehow convinced me to get colored extensions that were way too short, so I ended up looking like 'Annie.'

It's easy to look at a show with a diverse cast that's touching on topics that haven't been talked about and to think, 'Oh, this is just political correctness; this is just box ticking.'

I'm starting to play lots more naturalistic, realistic people than when I first started. Maybe because I was doing character comedy shows, and I was doing slightly weird, oddball characters with weird accents, those were the characters that I got cast to play - which made perfect sense.

Now when I travel, I'm more adventurous. If I find myself creeping back into that 'not going to leave the hotel' vibe, I take baby steps, like having a nice dinner on my own or getting my nails done.

Steve Buscemi's the coolest man in the world, and Daniel Radcliffe is the sweetest man in the world.

Adam Hess - he thinks that if you swallow enough chewing gum you go from being left-handed to being right-handed, and vice versa, but he is my best friend anyway.

I have no brand loyalty to toothpaste. It's absolutely a different brand every tube.

I still maintain that Looney Tunes is the funniest program ever made.

When I'm in Portland, I meet people who are hairdressers, they have a wonderful life, they go on hikes and do loads of things. Their career is just the thing they do to pay the bills. They enjoy it, but it's not this huge, continuous journey of trying to make it. And I'm attracted to that lifestyle, of just having a nice life.

There's something really special, and addictive, about making that connection with an audience - knowing that they may never have seen you before, and may never see you again, but that for those moments you've been able to unite them all in laughter, and provide the escape that lies in that involuntary response.

You can hit the comedy, but a lot of 'Shrill' is also emotional.

I want to sometimes talk about race and sometimes not talk about race, but mainly just do silly voices and pretend to be like strange people, and having people be like, 'That's fine, we accept that.'

You want to find the balance of acknowledging privilege and acknowledging the disadvantages that you have.

I'm hyperaware that I'm traveling as a Black woman, but I try to remind myself that there's a lot to be gained by stepping out of my comfort zone.

Performing a play or a musical or something is obviously an incredible rush, but I don't think you get that immediate response like with comedy unless you get a round of applause or whatever.

I had always wanted to do comedy, but didn't know where to start - all I knew was that Edinburgh was where it happened.

Comedy should always evolve; it's so easy to punch down.

If I was doing standup I would worry that someone would think I was being preachy, whereas, with a character, it always tends to be the opposite of what I think. You can get away with things.

I'm a Virgo. That is me. To a tee. Me and Beyonce. And Amy Winehouse! Same birthday.

I was desperate for comedy to seep into me somehow, convinced that being surrounded by it would give me the confidence to go onstage myself.

In a nightclub, the women's loos are not just the women's loos; they're where temporary female friendships are forged.

I thought I would be too vulnerable on stage doing standup. I didn't want to get up there and say: 'This is who I am. I want you to like me.'

Despite having lived in London for most of my life - and being a huge fan of dancing and drinking in the street - I've never been to Notting Hill carnival.

Online shopping. I spend the weekend browsing, but need the closure of a purchase before the new week starts.

When I was younger and went on holiday with my family, I'd be almost agoraphobic. I would just want to be on my Game Boy and not speak to anyone.