Loni Love Quotes
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My material reaches everyone.
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I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.
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That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh.
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The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.
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At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is certain, nothing is for sure, and if I'm going to make a move, I gotta make a move now.
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I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.
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That's the one thing I have to say to females. If you don't have a certain look, or if you look a certain way, they won't accept you.
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One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic.
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I am a seasoned performer.
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If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.
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I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it.
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Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.
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In 'Mother's Day,' which is directed by legendary director Garry Marshall, I play a mother figure to the character played by Jason Sudeikis from 'Saturday Night Live.' He's a widower, and I'm a mother who's helping him to get over the loss of his wife.
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Miss Britney Spears took a dude that was already with a girl that had babies. And sometimes when you do that kind of stuff and take a dude, that's called karma.
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Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.
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I always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show.
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I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?
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The thing is being honest with yourself. There's no rule that says you have to be married and have kids.
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I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.
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I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.
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One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.
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We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.
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Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through.
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I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.