Quotes from Nicole Byer

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

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

Let's just let funny people be funny.

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

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 love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.

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.

The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.

My mom was like, 'You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don't you just join the play or something?' It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.

People like me as a host.

Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.

When I was little, I used to love eating peanut butter sandwiches with tomatoes, and they would have to be on potato bread. I loved them. It's so weird, and I can't imagine eating it now, but I used to love eating them. It's a lot of flavors.

Red Lobster reminds me of my dad because he would always get coupons and be like, 'We're going to treat ourselves.'

What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me that weren't just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead, because that's breaking through.

I'm very silly.

On '90 Day Bae,' Marcy Jarreau and I recap '90 Day Fiancee' because it's just the most insane, funniest show on television.

It's so hard for me to insult people.

I've lived an interesting life.

It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.

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 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.

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.'