Top 50 Nicole Byer Quotes

I wear a lot of vintage, thrifted stuff.

Be comfortable in your skin.

Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.

I am an archetype. There’s the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That’s an archetype that exists, but that’s not truly me.

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.

I don’t get dressed for other people. I get dressed for what I see in the mirror. My body isn’t for other people’s consumption. If I smile when I look in the mirror, then great. Let’s start the day.

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

I’m very, very comfortable with who I am.

Making food is a labor of love – it’s a nice thing to do for your loved ones to show you care about them, that you took the time to make them something. But for me, I don’t cook. I would much rather hop in my car and go to a restaurant.

I love potato bread. It’s so good.

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

I’ve done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I’ve been asked to ‘be blacker.’ That’s code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.

I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions of people’s stories. Maybe with different specifics. But a lot of people experience the same things.

I don’t think anyone gets into comedy to host a baking show.

Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there’s no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

I moved to New York and went to a performing arts college, but it wasn’t until UCB that I started performing on the regular, figuring out how I’m funny, why I’m funny, and how to play with an audience.

My favorite thing from Dairy Queen is a Peanut Buster Parfait, which is: fudge at the bottom, vanilla ice cream, some peanuts, fudge, peanuts, ice cream, fudge, and it’s layered. But I also really like peanut butter cups, so I’ll put peanut butter cups in there.

I’m not conventionally beautiful, but what is beauty? Beauty is whatever you want it to be.

My style is like, if I were to time travel to the ’80s or ’90s, I would fit in, but they would be like, ‘Something’s off about her.’

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.

If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that’s power.

You don’t need someone to complete you.

I don’t know if there is too much bacon! I used to have bacon parties. That’s how much I love bacon.

Let’s just let funny people be funny.

I’m not mean. I can’t do a roast.

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

People like me as a host.

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

I just woke up one day was like, ‘People know you’re fat whether you have a cardigan on or your arms are out, so why not just let your arms be out because you’re hot.’

I search my name on Twitter because I don’t want to miss the compliments, and I favorite the nice things people say about me so they know I saw it. People are more positive than they are negative, and I try not to harp on the negative.

I was a server for a while, and I was a very bad one. So when people tipped me well, I felt like it was like, ‘Let’s get her out of here so she can get a new job.’

What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won’t be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.

I’m not heavily into baking.

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

I’m just – I’m a child.

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

I’ve lived an interesting life.

If someone goes, ‘Can you be sassier?’ I go, ‘I can be my kind of sassier. I’m not gonna put a voice on. The voice I have is my voice.’

I like sweet-and-salty things.

I want to bring my color and background to the table because it makes life – and entertainment – more interesting.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would look people in the face and be like, ‘Your snake cake’s not good.’

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.

Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.

Feeling supported when you are doing comedy is the best way to make comedy – at least, that’s how I think.

I don’t have any plans to ever diet again, but exercising does help with life. Endorphins are real, and it’s annoying because I don’t like to exercise. I hate running, but I started weightlifting, like, 150 pounds, and it’s fun, and it makes me feel accomplished.

If you want to change your body, that’s well within your means to do that, but if you don’t want to change your body, you need to accept it and embrace it.

No, I was not into cake fails before hosting ‘Nailed It.’

I love UCB Chelsea. There is, to me, no stage like it.

I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he’s got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called ‘Gay of Thrones.’