I love listening to audiobooks – I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don’t need them. Michaela Coel Read Quote
Moesha’ is very strong in my brain. The black women on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ are very strong in my brain. Michaela Coel Read Quote
I see my shows like Gandhi, and I’ve got little baby Gandhis, and they are changing the world. I know that I’m a bit delusional about that, but I do think of them like Gandhi. They are not celebrities: they are like Gandhi and Mother Teresa. Michaela Coel Read Quote
Comedy in the past hasn’t spoken to women because it wasn’t written by women, and male writers don’t make women three-dimensional characters. Too often, women just facilitate the man’s comedy: they’re not crazy; they’re not funny. But women are as vulgar as they are elegant, as stinky as they are smelling of eau de parfum. Michaela Coel Read Quote
I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life. Michaela Coel Read Quote
I’m very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don’t have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on. Michaela Coel Read Quote
I don’t believe in comedy as a TV genre – I think there’s drama that is funny. Because beyond the laughs, there has to be cost, and there has to be heart. Michaela Coel Read Quote
