Cameron Esposito Quotes

It's hard to narrow down your influences in comedy.

My personal philosophy is, talk about whatever you want on a show, but it better be good. And especially if it's something that challenges folks. You don't want to be on the side of power to demean a group that is at risk. Because that's propaganda. Whenever you're on the side of power, you're not making art. Art upends power.

Here's what I wish people wouldn't ask me: "Who are your influences?" That's a boring question. It's not even like, "What's it like to be a woman in comedy?" That question also happens often in interviews, but I at least understand where it's coming from. "Who are your influences" - I wonder if people ask that of male comics? Maybe they do.

I get a lot of credit for having succeeded as a Latina in this world, and I am not that. I appreciate it, but I'm Italian. And that does happen a lot.

We need to do a better job of understanding what the world is.

I love my job and I think my job is hard, but also, my job is such a privilege.

Everybody that you can think of that does comedy, I have met or worked with almost all of them.

Who are my influences? Everybody.

Before I was a vegetarian, I traveled to South Africa and hung out there for a little bit. And they had different animals - did you know different parts of the world have different animals? Because I didn't until I got there! This is what being an American is like. You're like, "Every place has these animals."

I am embarrassed to exist.

If I'm going one place, I want to feel like I can really get the whole vibe.

I feel like little kids should and do steal money. That is a major part of being a young child.

What have I stolen? Probably money as a kid.

I know more Australian people than I know New Zealand persons. I feel like there's a real gap in my education.

Australia's massive. I don't have a lot of downtime.

Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that your parents knew how much money they had. Nobody was being fooled.