Delilah I had never heard anyone doing what my show does, which is put the focus on the human condition – whatever you’re going through, good or bad, right or wrong, straight or gay, whatever. That human experience is the meat of the show. – Delilah Bad Quotes Condition Quotes Experience Quotes Focus Quotes Gay Quotes Heard Quotes Human Quotes Meat Quotes Straight Quotes Wrong Quotes It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, ‘Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.’ And I’m like, ‘I’ve talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!’ You know how most kids have posters of sports heroes on their walls? They gave me reams of the old news copy, and I had those taped in my bedroom. And I would practice reading the news.
Euzhan Palcy When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job. – Euzhan Palcy
Lena Waithe Being a black lesbian myself, I roll my eyes a little bit when I see black lesbian characters on shows where it’s purely there for decoration. You can just hear it in the writers room… ‘What if we make her a lesbian?’ – Lena Waithe
Patrick Stump There’s no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they’ll probably Google you. It’s a shame – people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I’m angry about something, I’m not going to take to my Twitter. – Patrick Stump
Rick Yancey I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to get it right, the skill to do it justice, the will to finish. I also worry about more mundane things, like what if my computer crashes and I’ve forgotten to back up the manuscript? – Rick Yancey
Acker Bilk I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what’s going to come out of there tonight? You never know. – Acker Bilk
Anjelah Johnson One of the first jokes I wrote was this nail salon bit that ended up blowing up on YouTube. That’s kind of what propelled me into standup. – Anjelah Johnson
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