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I don't do things that I'm not good at.Collection: Amanda
Auditioning for people you know is way more stressful than auditioning for people you don't know. And you have to pretend that you don't know because they're just staring at you.Collection: Amanda
As an artist, it's incredible to see folks see you and then be able to give that back and to be able to send two girls to a Black Girls Empowerment camp.Collection: Amanda
If you're not good at juggling, then you're not juggling. I always tell people that. If you're dropping a lot of balls, then maybe you shouldn't juggle. And that's fine... there's different ways of working.Collection: Amanda
I think, for a long time, I didn't have people who understood where I was coming from. They were giving me advice on what would be good for them.Collection: Amanda
For a long time, I didn't have a balance in terms of my worth and my market value; I was just a very talented person who hadn't done any work that truly demonstrated my talent.Collection: Amanda
I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of my mouth.Collection: Amanda
As a black woman, the government is so much in my life, and it always has been.Collection: Amanda
I'm not hostile. I'm passionate.Collection: Amanda
I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do and needed to get busy doing that work. I really do believe that I'm here for a bigger purpose, and I want to be a role model and speak for the black community and black women specifically. Humor was the way it felt most organic and effective for me.Collection: Amanda
In music, you ain't really got to be able to sing. In comedy, you may be cute, you may be able to add a little extra to your routine, but if you're not funny, no one's really rocking with you - and if you're a black woman, you better be hilarious. As usual, we always have to do the most.Collection: Amanda
When people agree with you, they'll just like it and keep it moving, but when people don't agree with you, that's when they come for your whole neck.Collection: Amanda
I can't even believe that in 2018, I still have to lay out why diversity in anything matters.Collection: Amanda
America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could own land, and only men who owned land could vote.Collection: Amanda
To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.Collection: Amanda
When I speak of diversity, I don't mean replacement of white comics. I don't mean acceptance by white comics. We comics who weren't born into the white guy paradigm of 'funny' don't need a handout. We don't need a PC push. We don't need 'a look.'Collection: Amanda
The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.Collection: Amanda
My brain doesn't work in a typical linear fashion: my brain is vibrant and fast and bright and on 10,000 all the time.Collection: Amanda
I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.Collection: Amanda
My whole intention is to break down these limitations of what a black comedian is supposed to be and to open up a space.Collection: Amanda
For a lot of comics who aren't as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as 'alt comics.' No, I'm still a black comic, and there are black people who want to hear my type of black comedy, but that space hasn't been built out for us.Collection: Amanda
I feel like I have a unique voice that's true and authentic, and we need more of that. If I can inspire more of that, I need to do that in as many places as possible.Collection: Amanda
I've always found inspiration in icons that were really of purpose in their craft or calling. From Bob Marley to Maya Angelou to Malcolm X, inspiration came from seeing how committed they were to their vision and determining it themselves.Collection: Amanda
I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a physical attraction on my part towards certain men who are younger than me. But it goes deeper than that - younger men are more enlightened. Generally speaking, and I know there are exceptions, they are more honest and open than men of my own generation.Collection: Amanda
I find the idea of someone being able to discuss subjects that would once have been considered taboo - and to do so without any kind of embarrassment or self-consciousness - very attractive in a man.Collection: Amanda
I notice that boy friends of my daughter talk about things that boys would never have spoken about when I was growing up.Collection: Amanda
There have been times when I've considered myself unlucky over children, but I have Emily and some people who desperately want children don't even have one child.Collection: Amanda
The day after Emily and I appeared on television together in 'New Tricks' for the first time, someone approached us when we were out shopping, asking for an autograph. It's something I've been asked a thousand times after nearly three decades in the public eye, but this time the young man wasn't interested in me. He had eyes only for my daughter.Collection: Amanda
I hate being in my 50s, not least because there are great roles that I just know I won't get now because the casting director thinks I look like an old bag.Collection: Amanda
I always wanted children and assumed I'd have a huge family, but it just never happened.Collection: Amanda
Getting married is one of the best things that has ever happened to me. It's fantastic.Collection: Amanda
When I first started doing 'New Tricks,' an older actress said to me, 'Can you ever imagine a world where you would have 'New Tricks' with three women in their fifties and a younger man? No!' And that is appalling. It's an insidious sexism because nobody talks about it. If you do, it's seen as whingeing!Collection: Amanda
I was lucky because I was in a long-running series.Collection: Amanda
Years ago, having an Equity Card usually meant you were trained, either in radio or theatre rep, which doesn't exist now. So there is nowhere for young actors to serve their apprenticeship. This means they are plummeted straight into work and you're famous within seconds, which is no good, especially when you are young.Collection: Amanda
My love of theatre began at a very early age.Collection: Amanda
When I was young, I spent years in and out of hospitals because of serious burns I'd suffered and at the age of five, I was super hyperactive.Collection: Amanda
My parents sent me to a ballet class which lasted no time at all - I couldn't really dance. So they sent me to a little Saturday drama school and I fell in love with performing and acting.Collection: Amanda
There's not a woman alive who wouldn't like to be 18 again; don't let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise.Collection: Amanda
I've had botox and fillers in the past, but then I stopped.Collection: Amanda
I've spent my career going up and down in weight, and I've always gone, 'I don't care what they think' because real women aren't sticks and I like playing real women.Collection: Amanda
The menopause shouldn't be so taboo because it's natural. I was filming on 'New Tricks' when mine started.Collection: Amanda
I've never been particularly spiritual.Collection: Amanda
I've been to India loads of times because of mum. She was actually born in Quetta in what is now Pakistan, before Partition.Collection: Amanda
My mother was Indian in her soul.Collection: Amanda
I'm so used to hospitals, I pretty much lived in one as a child.Collection: Amanda
It wouldn't even cross my mind to wear a long-sleeved dress.Collection: Amanda
I like it if a man holds a door open for me.Collection: Amanda
I like mild flirting.Collection: Amanda
I get sent scripts regularly and they are badly written and insulting. The women I'm asked to play are one-dimensional.Collection: Amanda
There are a few good roles a year in Britain for women in their fifties and that's not enough to go round. I find it ridiculous because it's one of the richest times in a woman's life.Collection: Amanda