Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

People paused to listen to Denise Chávez and she had them - with gum on her shoes, she had them. She said she stepped on gum when she came up to the stage and she couldn't move, so she had to stay in one spot otherwise people would see the Chiclet.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

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.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

Imperfection is relatable.

I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Most of my songs make fun of myself.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.