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" I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that? "

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" There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience. "

Loni Love

Great

Live

Look

" Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation. "

" Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived. "

" Seriously, I love my gays. They accept me, and I accept them. Imperfections and all, we accept each other. "

Loni Love

Love

" I am the funny, crazy person. "

" I'm hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That's why I tell people you've got to watch 'The Real.' We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it. "

" People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them. "

Loni Love

Off

People

" When you're a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees. "

" We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love. "

" It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time. "

" When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing. "

Loni Love

Mean

Connected

" In 'Mother's Day,' which is directed by legendary director Garry Marshall, I play a mother figure to the character played by Jason Sudeikis from 'Saturday Night Live.' He's a widower, and I'm a mother who's helping him to get over the loss of his wife. "

" The thing is being honest with yourself. There's no rule that says you have to be married and have kids. "

" I've been studying myself because I always want to improve. "

" I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view. "

Loni Love

Time

Funny

" I think that, for so long, there was only one type of actor, and now you see these different colors, different people, different shapes and different sizes. It just makes it more interesting. "

" I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation. "

" It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say. "

" I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love. "

" One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic. "

" One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television. "

" I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while. "

" I always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show. "

" I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics. "

Loni Love

Appreciate

Checking

" The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career. "

Loni Love

Work

Work Ethic

" Anyone driving a 1992 Cutlass, take it back, because I built it. "

" Whatever you're destined to do, you will be. "

" Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things. "

" Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore. "

" Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it's a two-way street! "