Nneka Quotes

I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.

I'm clearly doing what I want. I hope kids can see my act and feel like they can be slightly more comfortable in their own skin because I'm being so ridiculously comfortable in mine. I'm not that comfortable in my skin the moment I walk offstage. But I try to project that while I'm on it.

I'm just more content with myself. Like, if I've got something to say, I want to get it off of my chest.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I just be comfortable in my own skin; I might wear anything.

I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?

I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

I think the biggest thing I've learned is to not really worry what people will say or think about what you wear. You have to wear what feels good on you, what you feel comfortable in. And I've just learned to not really care.

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I think so much of what we learn when we get older is being comfortable in our own skin and learning what looks good, and not being so trend-centric.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in my roo;, it was like putting myself in a trance, and making myself feel good about things, almost like a private ceremony of begging people to like you.

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.