Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Lolly Adefope - Page 2

There's nothing quite like exiting a toilet cubicle and seeing a girl running towards you with her hand over her mouth.

I still get excited by the same clothes I did when I first started going to vintage shops. But I think as I get older, I realize how much nicer it is to have 10 great outfits rather than 1000 tops and dresses that are all in a pile I cry in every time I get ready to go out.

I wanted to do standup, but I was too nervous. I felt it was too vulnerable basically to be yourself on stage.

I like art that's simple but feels kind of genius - like David Shrigley or David Hockney.

Going to Edinburgh when I was at university and seeing people who were my age just getting up and doing what they wanted to do, was quite a clincher for me.

Making comedy is a privilege, so you should be doing something no one else can do. That's when it feels like art; it's a personal expression and it's being done in a unique way.

There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world.

Whereas acting, you have to wait for someone else to give you the opportunity to do it, in comedy, you can just pick out your own strengths and be like, I'm just going to show the best bits to the world.

A sad truth I've learned is that I watch a lot less live comedy than I did before it became my job.

You can still be sexist even though you're not necessarily talking about women.

Essentially, we live in a patriarchy where women are being distracted from realizing their full potential by the amount of time they spend waiting in toilet queues.

When you first start gigging, it's about finding an audience.

I know my strengths are doing a weird accent or having weird mannerisms so when I have to play a normal human being, I'm like, 'this is too hard.'

University was fun in many ways - new people, a new town, a bigger Vodka Revs bar. But my three years there also involved navigating a cacophony of questions such as, 'But why isn't there a White History Month? Like, genuinely? I just wanna know?'

I love Nooworks, Mara Hoffman, and Monki, and ASOS just for the joy of ordering a pair of shoes in bed at 11 P. M. and them arriving the next day.

I watched a lot of comedy when I was younger.

Boys can essentially wee anywhere, and my very scientific theory is that this privilege leads to some of the mind-blowing confidence they show in later life - for example, the number of guys I've known who've decided to 'give comedy a go' after finding out that I'm a comedian.

It is annoying that some people only see black women as role models to other black women, rather than as role models to lots of different people.

Like catching a glimpse of the McDonald's golden arches after a night out, when I see the blue and white Boots sign in the distance I feel comforted.

All my characters are like, weird people. Weird, un-self aware people.

The thing I love about comedy is that it challenges you.

I wore a green suit and green polo-neck to the 'Shrill' premiere. I loved it because on paper it sounds disgusting, but I managed to pull it off!

For me, it's comfort over style always, ladies!

Certain directors have that eye where something is beautiful as well as funny.

'The Miracle Workers' was the first time I've been on a big American TV set, so that felt very epic.

It is fun to play someone who likes everyone and is liked by most people, or is at least tolerated.

Much has been written on the subject of self-care, and what truly counts as such; one woman's double gin and tonic is another woman's culturally appropriated yoga retreat.

It wasn't until a few years ago, when I was going through old Facebook pictures with a friend, and happened upon a photo of a monkey at a zoo that had been tagged as me by an old housemate, that I realized I'd normalized so much racism.

I don't think that not seeing black women in comedy held me back, but I think subconsciously I never really thought that it was a career that I would definitely go into.

I've been quite lucky, I've done very cool projects, but knowing there are others who are put off because they don't see people who look like them, I feel like it's our responsibility to change that.

If you're just making people laugh, that can be one-dimensional. You have to bring something artistic into it, so it's working on another plane or is more complex.