Quotes from Loni Love

The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed.

The thing is being honest with yourself. There's no rule that says you have to be married and have kids.

People say they get a warmness from me.

I am a seasoned performer.

I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.

People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.

The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.

I don't have a lot of time for television because I am making it, so it's really hard for me to sit down. But when I do get a chance, I try to catch up on 'Scandal,' 'Empire' and 'black-ish.'

Life is funny, and that's why I celebrate it in my shows.

I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?

I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.

When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.

Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.

'SNL' ain't been relevant since Jim Belushi. It's on every week; it's not funny. They need to find some black women to put on there to make it funny.

I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.

I am the funny, crazy person.

I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that. And for everybody has a different path - find out your path! And if you want to do it, don't let people make you feel inadequate because you wanted to do something that's different.

I have relationships. I date. But it takes a lot to say I'm going to be married and have children.

Whatever you're destined to do, you will be.