Vanessa Bayer Quotes

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

Chris and I used to say, when he had his accident, 'Well, this is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to either one of us, but at least we had each other to go through it with.'

Within my first year of moving abroad living on my own, my sister got ill - she got cancer - and at the same time, my mum got cancer, and she passed away. I think at that time it was a hard challenge for me to deal with it, but in a way, I have always taken strength out of anything that has come at me.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'

Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

I think whenever any kind of hardship or tragedy comes along, it usually pulls a family closer together or, at least, hopefully.

Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.

Anybody who has cancer, they take it one day at a time.

A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, but anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I give a lot of credit to my dad, who was a very strong guy.

For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we've found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky... And that's how we stay entertained, and that's how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.

My mother is a two-time cancer survivor.

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

Wow, you survived a blackout. You're made of stronger stuff than ice cream.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.