Top 55 Lilly Singh Quotes

I’m my own boss, my own editor, my own shooter, my own writer, everything. This is all stuff I learned through trial and error… failing at a lot of things has taught me how to succeed at them eventually… you roll with the punches.

If you want to make YouTube your career, you have to accept that it is also a business. I know everyone’s like, ‘It’s my passion, it’s my hobby.’ And that’s fine; I support that. But if you want to make it your career, it does have a business side.

For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.

You have a character who is wearing a scarf on her head on a billboard in LA, New York, Sydney and Melbourne. That’s how I would face barriers being thrown at me.

Sometimes I’ll be sitting on Facebook at home and see all these people getting married, having kids, having that life that I was told I should have. And sometimes I feel like I’m doing something wrong. Am I the stupid one here? Am I not doing what I’m supposed to do? And that’s also equally as stressful.

No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.

Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She’s my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time.

I’m actually not making fun of my real parents. I’ve taken stereotypical traits of my real parents, my aunts, my uncles and parents of every race and put them into these two characters, who are just over-the-top ridiculous and super-alpha parents about everything.

I think why my content does so well with so many different types of people is because it speaks to everyone. I’ll make a Soca music reference, I’ll use a Tamil word, I’ll do a Jamaican Patois accent. I know about all these people, and I’m not afraid to indulge in their culture.

When I posted my first video, I remember it hit 700 views after a week, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is amazing.’ I was over the moon.

I got into psychology simply because that’s what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very, like, ‘Follow your sister’s footsteps.’ I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did… really had no interest in it, to be honest.

There is no casting director; there is no producer monitoring your upload button. Anyone that looks like anyone can upload a video. I think YouTube and the digital space does set a really good example for the rest of the industry in that sense.

The parent characters that I portray are Indian because I grew up in an Indian household. Having said that, I feel like people of all cultures would relate to those parents.

I am not looking for a relationship right now. I have no interest in putting my time or effort into another person, nor do I need another person to put energy into me, OK? Because that’s what granola bars are for.

I’m an extreme workaholic.

Every day, something new gets thrown at me, and I’m like, ‘How did this happen?’ I’ve gone through some of the craziest life experiences because of YouTube.

My fans are honestly so unique and so similar. Wherever I travel, they are so, so different but so the same.

After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, ‘Oh my God, how girls get ready? This is hilarious. I love this; I’m forgetting about all my problems.’

The platform got me out of a very dark period of my life, so I love YouTube genuinely.

Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I’m either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

I’m like, ‘I think I’m just going to wear what makes me happy,’ so I’m just really big on wearing things that reflect my personality, like colorful hats and weird shoes and things that I just think are fun.

Honestly, I just wear what makes me feel good. So many people come up to me, and they’re like, ‘Did you know you’re a tomboy? You should try wearing dresses.’

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything – that’s why my videos are blurry.

I’m the type of person who doesn’t hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.

Everyone’s voice should be heard when it comes to racial barriers.

I am pretty weird – as weird as in my videos. The only difference is Lilly is not a performer, and Superwoman is. So Superwoman is very fearless. You’ll never see her nervous. You’ll never see her sad. But Lilly is a human. She is the person behind Superwoman, who gets sad and tired sometimes.

I can go to my premiere at the Chinese Theatre, and everyone will know me, and everyone will cater to me. And then I’ll go to an audition and get rejected left, right and centre. They don’t watch my videos, and they don’t really know who I am. It is like starting from scratch when it comes to traditional Hollywood.

You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.

I want my channel to be a place people go even if they don’t care about Lilly. I don’t want them to have to know about Lilly or care about me as a person to enjoy my content.

Sometimes I’m having conversations with my friends, and I feel like they can’t relate to me anymore. I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, let me tell you about my experience on ‘Fallon’!’ And they’ll be like, ‘Oh, my God, let me tell you about my trip to the mall!’ It sometimes feels lonely.

Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, ‘If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.’

You need to know who your ideal viewer is, and mine is a 14-year-old screaming female. And I’m thrilled about that. I am thrilled.

It’s really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

Everyone can relate to the story of fighting for happiness.

I will forever and always identify with Scarborough – no matter where I move.

When I started out the videos, I was dealing with depression, and I wanted to make inspiring videos for others, which would end up inspiring me in turn. I wanted to show the world that it was possible to make a positive switch in life and start over.

Regardless of where life has taken me, I’m always excited to come back to Canada. I will forever be a proud Canadian. In fact, a lot of my success comes from the fact that I come from a diverse place, and that translates into my comedy. I will always be Team Canada.

I always say that when I first started, my videos were very veered towards Indian people.

‘Unicorn Island’ is the synonym for my happy place. It’s a really beautiful message: that happiness is one of the hardest things you’ll ever fight for, but it’s the only thing worth fighting for.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.

I love wearing makeup! It’s just that if you choose not to wear it, that’s OK. And if you choose to wear it, that’s OK as well.

There’s no escalators – there’s only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

On my Superwoman channel, I am more of a performer, I am aiming to make you guys laugh. With vlogs, it’s just me and my day, boring or fun.

When I first started YouTubeing, the idea was, ‘Oh, YouTube is going to be a stepping stone to get to other places,’ and I just totally don’t agree with that. I think YouTube is amazing. The digital space is amazing.

When I used to live in Toronto, I would always be the busiest person out of all my friends… no one could relate to what I was doing. When I’m in L.A., I constantly feel like I’m keeping up with people, and I love that.

My job requires me to always be on. I’m always getting my makeup done for a shoot.

I am absolutely terrified to move… I truly, truly believe that success lies outside of your comfort zone, and my house has been the greatest comfort zone for me.

Superwoman is more of a performer, which Lilly isn’t. Having said that, I guess both of them are completely over the top, dramatic and full of energy.

I know the video platform so, so, so well. I know the perfect mixture of how comedic a piece has to be, what the video has to be like, what the song has to sound like, to make it successful.

I’m by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it’s something you have to really work on.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.

Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.