Top 55 Loni Love Quotes

People say they get a warmness from me.

Everything that I’ve done on television has helped me to get the exposure that I need.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do – you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I’m at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

I did all this standup comedy in college, and from that point on, I tried to develop myself and get my name back out there.

Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you’re good, it will shine through.

We provide comedy for everybody, no matter what your race or gender. We just want people to come out and have a really good time.

I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian’s. I like to find the humor in love.

I do like to laugh at and talk about relationships.

I couldn’t be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

Really, it hasn’t changed for female comics; it’s still hard for females to really enter the game.

I love being a regular on ‘Chelsea Lately!’

I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn’t want to be married.

I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.

Whatever you’re destined to do, you will be.

In ‘Mother’s Day,’ which is directed by legendary director Garry Marshall, I play a mother figure to the character played by Jason Sudeikis from ‘Saturday Night Live.’ He’s a widower, and I’m a mother who’s helping him to get over the loss of his wife.

I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That’s why I became a comic.

The president of CBS handpicked me for the ‘Star Search’ revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.

Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.

I do think the audiences have a right to judge what they feel is offensive and not.

I have a fear of being broke. That’s what I have a fear of. I’m not kidding.

I tend to be everybody’s best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.

When you’re a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees.

I’m what you call a satisfied single. I don’t want to give any trip reports when I come home.

I am the funny, crazy person.

I am a seasoned performer.

When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that ‘you got mail,’ you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it’s because we’re not using the people that are trying to be entertainers – use more of them.

What we’re trying to do is take these words and soften them. I’m an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.

That’s the one thing I have to say to females. If you don’t have a certain look, or if you look a certain way, they won’t accept you.

With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That’s what I like to talk about.

I’ve seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?

We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.

Miss Britney Spears took a dude that was already with a girl that had babies. And sometimes when you do that kind of stuff and take a dude, that’s called karma.

My material reaches everyone.

One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, ‘Please save someone else’s job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me – and just lay me off.’ I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic.

I’ll see something, and I’ll go, ‘Oh, wow, that’s interesting,’ because really, comedy comes from the truth.

Anyone driving a 1992 Cutlass, take it back, because I built it.

Seriously, I love my gays. They accept me, and I accept them. Imperfections and all, we accept each other.

Life is funny, and that’s why I celebrate it in my shows.

‘SNL’ ain’t been relevant since Jim Belushi. It’s on every week; it’s not funny. They need to find some black women to put on there to make it funny.

Now that I live in Los Angeles, if I meet somebody from Detroit, it’s like there’s this brother- or sisterhood, where we’re real folks.

Black women know that we’ve got to take care of it – so we take care of it. It’s just embedded in us.

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I’m not that kind of person.

If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter – there’s always something happening in the country and in the world. That’s why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

It’s been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, ‘Oh she just popped up on the scene,’ but I’ve been working on this for some time.

I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting.

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say.

That’s a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh.

Mom was a nurse’s aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.