I was in a Rite Aid... and fell into a Christmas tree display. None other than Shia LaBeouf helped me out of it.
When I was little, I used to love eating peanut butter sandwiches with tomatoes, and they would have to be on potato bread. I loved them. It's so weird, and I can't imagine eating it now, but I used to love eating them. It's a lot of flavors.
No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'
What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me that weren't just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead, because that's breaking through.
Feeling supported when you are doing comedy is the best way to make comedy - at least, that's how I think.
If you want to change your body, that's well within your means to do that, but if you don't want to change your body, you need to accept it and embrace it.
Be comfortable in your skin.
I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.
The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.
I am an archetype. There's the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That's an archetype that exists, but that's not truly me.
I've always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I'm not very athletic, so I've never won a sports award. So, I'm a mediocre person.
I think I saw 'Ghost' at, like, 6 or 7 - like, a little too early to see 'Ghost' - but I would watch Whoopi over any kids' thing. Everything she did was so funny, and all of her scenes are almost like sketches.
You don't need someone to complete you.
I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.
Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.
Let's just let funny people be funny.
I hate that there's such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!
I've lived an interesting life.
During my 20s, I truly said 'yes' to everything, whether it was a good idea or not.
My mom was like, 'You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don't you just join the play or something?' It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.
