Hannah Gadsby Quotes

#1. A lot of people are intimated by art, but it's something to be revered beyond criticism.

Hannah Gadsby

#2. My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

Hannah Gadsby

#3. I think most people's view is that selfies are just vanity and stupid, but I think they're really great.

Hannah Gadsby

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

Hannah Gadsby

#5. I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

Hannah Gadsby

#6. The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.

Karl Lagerfeld

#7. His favourite entertainments were intellectual rather than social; he went to public lectures and visited the observatory, the theatre and the opera. 'Tragedy excites the soul,' he later told one of his secretaries, 'lifts the heart, can and ought to create heroes.'24

Andrew Roberts

#8. It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

Lionel Richie

#9. I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

Hannah Gadsby

#10. There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

Martin Scorsese

#11. A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

Hannah Gadsby

#12. A log cabin symbolized the embrace between civilization and nature, humans literally wrapping the trees around them as they might draw on a coat and hat.

Gene Logsdon

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

Hannah Gadsby

#14. I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician ... tailor.

Hannah Gadsby

#15. Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

Hannah Gadsby

#16. I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.

Hannah Gadsby

#17. Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#18. As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,

Trevor Baylis

#19. He felt the power but it meant less to him somehow.

Danielle Paige

#20. My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.

Elena Roger

#21. Driggs, wake up." she shook him. "Driggs!"
"Whaaat?" he groaned, squinting. "Why again? With the shaking?"
She held up the scrap. "I just found this in your pants."
Driggs raised an eyebrow. "What were you doing in my pants?"
She smacked him. "Focus! Read what it says.

Gina Damico

#22. Warriors don't need saviours. Warriors save themselves.

Carmen Jenner

#23. This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

Hannah Gadsby

#24. Excuse me? Do you mind if I sit next to you? This spot has the best view of ... " I glanced out the window. "The ... gravel roof.

Cindi Madsen

#25. If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

Henry Moore

#26. The highest compact we can make with our fellow is -
"Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Ralph Waldo Emerson