Quotes from Nicole Byer

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'm not mean. I can't do a roast.

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

I'm not heavily into baking.

I really like Beyonce. She's a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.

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.

Dogs are very strange, but they're wonderful and they love to cuddle, and their breath is so stinky!

I love pigs. I think they're very cute. I really want a pet pig, but those micro pigs, they don't stay micro.

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

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

I'm not a baker, and I don't know anything about baking, and I don't claim to.

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

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

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.

I'm generally a positive person.

I love potato bread. It's so good.

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.

I don't preach body positivity - I'm just okay with the body I'm in and say, 'I love me, so you should love you.'

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

Talking-head shows are just a camera, a sound guy, and then a PA writing down what you say and a producer asking you questions. And you're just supposed to rephrase the question and add a joke to it. Figuring out how to do that was super hard.

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

I'm not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.