41 Quotes by Hannah Gadsby

Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was destructive as well.

A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they've trusted take responsibility, and that is what's toxic.

If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that seems thin for me. That has a place - I don't think it should stop happening - but for me, I don't know. I just don't.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

Stories appeal to humanity.

'Nanette' has been a journey. She went from being something of a personal little blast to the world from me, that I expected would seal me off into the margins as far as my career is concerned, and into an idiosyncratic sort of life beyond all of that.

The only people I don't reach on a very personal level are straight white men. They don't really need another entertainer dedicated for them exclusively, so they're fine.

Just because it's been around for centuries, doesn't mean it's cool to be a creepy old man.