Diora Baird Quotes

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.

When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

If you can make it as a children's party fairy, you can make it anywhere.

What I love is to create a show and for people to enjoy it and be aware that's what it is: a show.

I don't want to have to be a teacher so I can be a comedian.

For fifty years, I was a part-time model, but basically, I'm a nutritionist, a teacher, a mother.

The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I was a kid in the 1970s and '80s, and I was definitely inspired by Jim Henson's 'Muppets' and 'Sesame Street.' I was very curious about what was going on underneath the puppets I saw on screen. I made my own puppets, did puppet shows for schools, PTAs, churches, and the kids in my neighborhood.

I worked as a barista and a kindergarten teacher. I really love kids and enjoyed every minute of being in a kindergarten.

When Layla and I would do promos out in the arena, it was just the most-fun ever! People genuinely hate her.

Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.

I guess drag queens, by nature, have to do everything. When you start being a drag queen, you're grabbing the microphone, hosting the shows. Then, you're setting the microphone down and doing the number. You're spending the day before doing your wigs and sewing your costumes. You're doing everything.

From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.

The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy.

That's the one thing I think I have figured out pretty decently well is I'm a performer. I've always been an entertainer; y'know, growing up, that's all I've ever done.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

Some guys like myself, we like to play off the crowd.

Some players out there don't really interact with the crowd - they're really serious - but I think it's part of my personality as well. I go out there, and I like to entertain. I like to put on a bit of a show.