Quotes from Hannah Gadsby

I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

'Nanette' has been a journey. She went from being something of a personal little blast to the world from me, that I expected would seal me off into the margins as far as my career is concerned, and into an idiosyncratic sort of life beyond all of that.

There are times I've been surprised by how emotional I can be on stage.

I found that pottering is very conducive to my creative process, so now, I find myself being incredibly creative because I've got such much to procrastinate with.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

I'm a pretty good procrastinator.

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was destructive as well.

If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that seems thin for me. That has a place - I don't think it should stop happening - but for me, I don't know. I just don't.

To get recognized in New York is weird because that's definitely a place you shouldn't be recognized.

I've always done live art history lectures and small documentaries in the past in Australia, on Australian art and art galleries, so I've already done a lot of that.

I've got Asperger's. I come at things from sideways.

We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.

Just because you're gay doesn't mean you're not homophobic.

A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they've trusted take responsibility, and that is what's toxic.

My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.