Quotes from Katherine Ryan

I got into comedy at exactly the right moment.

My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.

If I've got a confidence problem, it's that my self-esteem is entirely too high.

I love paying people to touch me. Nail techs, hair stylists, dermatologists, make-up artists, osteopaths: you name it, I love it.

I have huge admiration for Taylor Swift. She's tall, talented, young, thin, and beautiful. More importantly, she seems focused, generous, vulnerable, and kind.

If I'm in the position where I get to hire someone, where I get to decide who joins me on tour, then I am mindful about that, and I try to suggest women that I know who I think deserve more exposure.

I talk funny 'cause I come from Canada.

In Canada, good waitresses are tipped well. I learnt that the harder you work, the more money you make.

When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.

Regressing back to an infant state is nothing to be proud of. Rich Americans don't drive themselves, don't cook, don't do their own nails/hair/make-up, don't shop, and I suppose all they've got in common with rich British people is that they don't raise their own kids, either.

I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules.

I'm not interested in younger men for the same reason most women aren't interested in younger men; I don't have time to make an extra packed lunch every morning. Please. I'm busy enough already.

Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.

I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.

I know a lot about systemic lupus erythematosus because I have it, too. I was diagnosed through the NHS when I first moved to England in 2008 following months of serious illness.

When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to overcome. To me, a black woman is a woman-woman.

We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

Posh people blow my mind. Apart from empathy, they're good at everything - true survivalists.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to look and feel like a grown woman when I was young. That's one reason why it's important to hold adults who take advantage of that fully accountable.

Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.

I'm not a Rachel Dolezal. I don't fake tan; I don't have the cornrows, I don't misappropriate. I just want to be Beyonce.

I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were, and it wasn't me!

I am behind Kanye West for American President 100 per cent.

All I've ever wanted to be is a strong, powerful, beautiful black woman.