Top 25 Anjelah Johnson Quotes

I love sharing my life with people.

I’m from San Jose, CA, which is very diverse, and I grew up around a lot of different types of people.

Once, I was doing Bon Qui Qui in Miami, and this black girl was in the audience, and she yelled out, ‘That’s not funny!’ which was really funny because she sounded exactly like the character I was playing.

I do a joke in my stand-up where I say I’m a Christian, but I’m not a Christian comedian. I think that’s definitely how I see my acting. I’m an actor who happens to be a Christian.

People usually want to show me their impression of me, which is always awkward.

I think people know what they’re getting with my name, because they’ve seen my specials on Netflix.

Don’t try to be anybody else, because that’s what I do. I do me. I’m not trying to impress anybody. I’m not trying to please my pastor at church. I’m not trying to even please my mom, to be honest.

I like to be the only one who uses my toothbrush.

Everyone who comes to my show has their own struggles. There’s so many people dealing with so many things; I love that I get to be part of their healing process by making them laugh.

I started doing comedy in a church.

Deep down inside, I’m really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl’s body. But I’m also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.

A majority of Bon Qui Qui is my little brother, who is ghetto fabulous. He has no filter whatsoever. He just says what’s on his mind.

My sister was always supportive. When I first moved to L.A., she was like ‘I know you can do it!’ But my parents, in the beginning, not so much. They were kinda like, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’ But when I actually started booking things, my dad was like, ‘Oh, I knew it all along.’

There’s been roles that I have turned down. There’s no rule book or handbook… It’s just… whatever I’m comfortable with.

There’s a joke that I do where I make fun of myself for being bow-legged, and I compare myself to a camel and how a camel walks and sits, and that has become a joke that people – when I deliver that joke, people are in tears.

When people didn’t really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.

I live my life not to please my pastor or my church or fellow Christians. I live my life according to my own convictions and morals and core values and principles, and a lot of times, that’s not going to add up to other Christians.

It’s always nerve-wracking when people say they look up to you or that you’re a good role model. It’s such a double-edged sword, because you realize you’ve been put on this pedestal, and you have to make sure that you don’t do anything to get torn down.

I’ve been doing the Vietnamese nail lady impressions since my mom first took me to get my nails done when I was 12.

I had this little piece of me that always wanted to be an actress, but I would never say it out loud because it was kind of embarrassing because where in San Jose do you become an actress? You don’t, really. It was very far-fetched. It was similar to me saying, ‘I want to be a princess.’

People pay their hard-earned money to come and watch me perform live. That’s a blessing.

When I really started just giving them the truth of who I was, that’s when my fan base really started to grow.

Sometimes you hear about people who can’t wait to leave their hometown. I did not have that feeling at all. I love San Jose, I love the Bay Area, and I love coming home to visit.

I’ve realized that I can never not do the nail salon joke, and I will have to talk about Bon Qui Qui for eternity.

You don’t want to let people down, and that’s so hard because you’re never going to please everybody. There’s always going to be someone that’s a naysayer.