Quotes from Katherine Ryan

Skiing is ridiculous.

Isolated incidents have lateral, lasting implications.

Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.

Justin Bieber is a lovely chap.

I thank God every day that there was no YouTube or Twitter when I was a teenager. I would have had a channel, and it would have been mortifying.

I always tried to fit in, so I was a cheerleader with the orange skin and white-blonde hair, and Hooters was part of that.

I was really lucky to have been raised in this really powerful matriarchy where my dad was around, but I was with my mom and my grandma most of the time. They were heavy influences on me. My mother has a career in technology; my grandma sold real estate.

I'm actually thrilled with the woman I'm turning out to be.

Anything that I'm passionate about and surprises me usually ends up turning into a joke simply because I have questions about it and I'm curious and I want to talk about it.

I love Little Mix, and I always have.

We don't have glamour models in Canada at all.

The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.

Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that's happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.

I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.

I'm not a nasty person.

I've always been attracted to comedy that was really close to the line and made people a little uncomfortable, because that's where progress comes from.

I feel like I'm always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.

I'm nearly see-through. Like a jellyfish.

When you stand out in a small town or at work,or in your peer group, whatever it is, it feels really awful. Certainly, when you're growing up, you want to be normal. You just want to fit in. Then you realize that maybe fitting in is, in some respects, quite ordinary. I think it's good to put a positive spin on being slightly unique.

The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

Why would you watch an Oscar-nominated film unless you're mad enough to purposely experience feelings? Bleh. I'm not interested in catching those.

I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.