Quotes from Rose Matafeo

Being an aunty is the best - exactly what I wanted from this - someone to have ownership over but no obligation to take care of.

I literally tried to get one date in five months in Auckland, and I couldn't. Auckland is quite small, so you know everyone, and everyone in Auckland has a partner already, so there's nobody to date.

It's almost like I'm obsessed with being in love.

I've always been an anxious performer. I've never liked performing.

But being in love - or actually just chasing boys who don't like me as much as I like them - for me is the ultimate thing.

Either I'm going to be like an MGM starlet - get married five times, it will be a bit of a laugh - or I will get pregnant, by accident, with someone I barely know. We'll get through it. They'll be a great co-parent. We definitely won't end up together.

I wouldn't say I always have the talent to do something - I think I definitely probably have a moderate amount of talent - but I can pretend to have confidence or, I guess, charisma... It's so hard to look at myself like that.

I'm very ambitious. I'm the kind of person who still feels as if they could win an Oscar. Albeit, with no evidence to support that expectation whatsoever.

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian a while to find out what their thing is, or what they feel good doing on stage.

People have told me I've got no filter or I'm a bit of an over-sharer.

Comedy is quite hard and it takes like a decade to figure out what kind of comedian you are, so don't quit.

I'm highly anxious, ambitious, and very hard on myself.

I like silly photos of me, looking stupid.

I wear sneakers all the time. Well, I can't fit any girls' shoes. I've got big feet.

You get used to such micro-aggressions, those sneaky remarks. Especially in comedy: when the mood is meant to be light you can get accused of not being able to take a joke.

For so many years, women and people who aren't white have had to be undeniable to get into line-ups.

The fact that I went back to New Zealand, a country where you are legally allowed to date, and I couldn't manage to get one - I was like, I'm done with this country. I'm fleeing back to London.

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with your mates, go to the arcades, go to the cinema in the daytime, it's like being a teenager all the time.

New Zealand has this funny attitude towards celebrities where we're not so impressed. We are secretly impressed, but we never want to show it, so we're not sycophantic about it.

You can see that the successful comedians who have come from New Zealand, like Flight of the Conchords, they had the time to become what they are, and go overseas as a fully formed thing.

Every time I go back to New Zealand I live with my Nan, and it is the sweetest thing. I don't know if she fully understood how much you are catered for on set, so she'd send me to work with like, pavlovas and lemon drizzle cakes and smoked snapper.

I wanted to make a TV show that I would want to watch and I naturally gravitated towards the genre of rom-com, because that's something that I have so much love for.

Unfortunately we live in a world where I think women aren't actively encouraged or at least not empowered to make good work in every creative sphere, particularly in comedy.

Part of making a relationship work is compromise and I think the idea of compromise in relationships is something that we lack in my generation.