Anjelah Johnson Quotes
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Sometimes you hear about people who can't wait to leave their hometown. I did not have that feeling at all. I love San Jose, I love the Bay Area, and I love coming home to visit.
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It's always nerve-wracking when people say they look up to you or that you're a good role model. It's such a double-edged sword, because you realize you've been put on this pedestal, and you have to make sure that you don't do anything to get torn down.
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There's a joke that I do where I make fun of myself for being bow-legged, and I compare myself to a camel and how a camel walks and sits, and that has become a joke that people - when I deliver that joke, people are in tears.
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I was lucky to grow up in a culturally diverse area knowing a lot of different people from all different walks of life.
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When I really started just giving them the truth of who I was, that's when my fan base really started to grow.
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Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.
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Ellen DeGeneres is great. She has this natural style, and she makes comedy look so easy.
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Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.
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People usually want to show me their impression of me, which is always awkward.
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I stay far away from political humor.
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I'm used to performing. I'm comfortable in front of people. I'm never the one who's fighting for attention, but I've always been comfortable.
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I've realized that I can never not do the nail salon joke, and I will have to talk about Bon Qui Qui for eternity.
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I'm Mexican. I eat salsa with everything.
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I'm not very good with the Twitter.
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Everyone who comes to my show has their own struggles. There's so many people dealing with so many things; I love that I get to be part of their healing process by making them laugh.
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Don't try to be anybody else, because that's what I do. I do me. I'm not trying to impress anybody. I'm not trying to please my pastor at church. I'm not trying to even please my mom, to be honest.
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One of my best friends growing up was Vietnamese, and he and his mom would teach me how to say certain things so I could impress my nail girls. Then the nail girls would teach me how to count to 100 and basic things like 'Thank you' and 'You're welcome.' It's funny, because any accent that I do now always turns into Vietnamese.
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I'm a very observational storyteller, and I'm always relational - a lot of stories stem from relationships, whether it's me with my husband, me with my mom or my siblings.
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I love sharing my life with people.
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People pay their hard-earned money to come and watch me perform live. That's a blessing.