Nina Conti Quotes

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

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.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite.

I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

I've always internalized things.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.