Quotes from Lolly Adefope

A lot of people just kind of act as if it's their God-given right to be overpaid and on TV, but it just feels like there has to be a level of like: 'This is an exciting thing to be doing.' It's not just something that we're owed.

I love Nooworks, Mara Hoffman, and Monki, and ASOS just for the joy of ordering a pair of shoes in bed at 11 P. M. and them arriving the next day.

The thing that attracted me the most was comedy acting and people like Catherine Tate and Olivia Colman; people doing funny voices and accents.

I want to keep the British side of my sense of humor.

You can still be sexist even though you're not necessarily talking about women.

I wanted to do standup, but I was too nervous. I felt it was too vulnerable basically to be yourself on stage.

I thought I would be too vulnerable on stage doing standup. I didn't want to get up there and say: 'This is who I am. I want you to like me.'

I'm such a good best friend.

I'm very willing to cut people off if they betray the people that I love.

I wore a green suit and green polo-neck to the 'Shrill' premiere. I loved it because on paper it sounds disgusting, but I managed to pull it off!

University was fun in many ways - new people, a new town, a bigger Vodka Revs bar. But my three years there also involved navigating a cacophony of questions such as, 'But why isn't there a White History Month? Like, genuinely? I just wanna know?'

I think not getting into Cambridge was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me.

If you're just making people laugh, that can be one-dimensional. You have to bring something artistic into it, so it's working on another plane or is more complex.

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk about what I want to talk about.

A sad truth I've learned is that I watch a lot less live comedy than I did before it became my job.

I was desperate for comedy to seep into me somehow, convinced that being surrounded by it would give me the confidence to go onstage myself.

Steve Buscemi's the coolest man in the world, and Daniel Radcliffe is the sweetest man in the world.

When I was in Year 10 I saw a girl on 'X Factor' with a really great, huge afro, so I went to the hairdresser's to get a weave and achieve the same look. She somehow convinced me to get colored extensions that were way too short, so I ended up looking like 'Annie.'

Boys can essentially wee anywhere, and my very scientific theory is that this privilege leads to some of the mind-blowing confidence they show in later life - for example, the number of guys I've known who've decided to 'give comedy a go' after finding out that I'm a comedian.

Making people laugh, I think, is very powerful.

Comedy is a cool thing, because, at least in my experience, if you're good at it and people know, they'll find out about you.

There is something quite amusing about someone who is relentlessly positive and wants to be everyone's friend in a cynical world.

Online shopping. I spend the weekend browsing, but need the closure of a purchase before the new week starts.

I think sometimes as an actor your career and life are kind of dependent on other people's decisions, what other people tell you, what time other people tell you to get up in the morning, what lines people tell you to say.