Loni Love Quotes

I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting.

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There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience.

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If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.

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They're smart in Orange County. Smart and rich - just how I like 'em.

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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.

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That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh.

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Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it's a two-way street!

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Miss Britney Spears took a dude that was already with a girl that had babies. And sometimes when you do that kind of stuff and take a dude, that's called karma.

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

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Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through.

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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.

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I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.

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I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

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At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is certain, nothing is for sure, and if I'm going to make a move, I gotta make a move now.

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I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

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Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.

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I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

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I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?

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I love being a regular on 'Chelsea Lately!'

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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.

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I do like to laugh at and talk about relationships.

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Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.

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Now that I live in Los Angeles, if I meet somebody from Detroit, it's like there's this brother- or sisterhood, where we're real folks.

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What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.

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We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.

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With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.

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In 'Mother's Day,' which is directed by legendary director Garry Marshall, I play a mother figure to the character played by Jason Sudeikis from 'Saturday Night Live.' He's a widower, and I'm a mother who's helping him to get over the loss of his wife.

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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.'

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

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

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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.

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I'm hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That's why I tell people you've got to watch 'The Real.' We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it.

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I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

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We provide comedy for everybody, no matter what your race or gender. We just want people to come out and have a really good time.

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The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.

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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.

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It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say.

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Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.

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

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

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Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.

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

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What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.

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Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.

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

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'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.

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It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time.

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I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

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Everything that I've done on television has helped me to get the exposure that I need.

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I did all this standup comedy in college, and from that point on, I tried to develop myself and get my name back out there.

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I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.

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One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic.

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I am the funny, crazy person.

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You men make up these rules, and now you get mad because I'm telling you what a real woman wants. She wants you to treat her like a lady if you want her to sit up there and put on all the lingerie!

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Seriously, I love my gays. They accept me, and I accept them. Imperfections and all, we accept each other.

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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.

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I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

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I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home.

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I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

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Anyone driving a 1992 Cutlass, take it back, because I built it.

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I do think the audiences have a right to judge what they feel is offensive and not.

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When you're a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees.

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That's the one thing I have to say to females. If you don't have a certain look, or if you look a certain way, they won't accept you.

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Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.

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

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I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love.

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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.

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I am a seasoned performer.

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I'm fat, and I support fat celebrities, like Oprah.

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

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I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.

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

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I always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show.

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I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.

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People say they get a warmness from me.

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My material reaches everyone.

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

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One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.

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