Niecy Nash Quotes

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

Nobody makes me laugh like my wife.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.

I do have a right to talk about my life, to tell my truth from my perspective.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don't like it, it's OK.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

I think there's nothing better than a comedy that also is not afraid to have those heartfelt moments.

You find yourself writing the truth, because it's like, 'Well, I ain't writing for anyone but myself anyway.'

I want to portray myself as myself.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

If people are coming to see me because they like what I do on 'Mock the Week,' that's great because they are coming to see me being me.

I'm dying for people to let me be funny!

Being funny is my biggest differentiator, and I think I'd be a fool not to use that, and there's nothing I enjoy personally more than making a human being laugh. But then, I also think I have a serious side to me.