Michaela Coel

I over-write!

— Michaela Coel

I am really weird.

— Michaela Coel

I have to go to sleep with music.

— Michaela Coel

I'm massively open-minded to pretty much anything.

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I'm a Louis Theroux addict.

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I love Issa Rae. I adore her.

— Michaela Coel

Drama school taught me not to be precious.

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I love Jeremy Corbyn, definitely.

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So many of my memories revolve around TV.

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'Chewing Gum' is the London that I know.

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There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

— Michaela Coel

Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking.

— Michaela Coel

I've been bullied about my appearance since forever.

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I do like making people feel uncomfortable - it's separating the wheat from the chaff.

— Michaela Coel

I don't think we should be presentable or present ourselves for the sake of others.

— Michaela Coel

'Chewing Gum' ages me 15 years every time I do it - it's insane.

— Michaela Coel

It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.

— Michaela Coel

Women are tired of 'presenting' themselves; we just want to be who we are.

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I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my…

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When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

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I love listening to audiobooks - I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don't need them.

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I think you just have to do you, whatever that is, and not feel like you have to be a certain way…

— Michaela Coel

I don't believe in comedy as a TV genre - I think there's drama that is funny. Because beyond the laughs, there…

— Michaela Coel

I feel that when you want to start attacking people or completely rejecting the people you see as not on the godly…

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I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K.…

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At college, I became friends with this girl who was a 'cool Christian.' They did street dance, then they prayed. It became…

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In comedy, I often see so many weird race jokes, and it's like, there is no racial diversity in your show to…

— Michaela Coel

The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals…

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When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how…

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What was nice for me was that when I got to secondary school - like high school - I met many other…

— Michaela Coel

If there's anyone out there that looks a bit like me, or just feels a little bit out of place just trying…

— Michaela Coel

I don't actually believe in the genre of comedy. Sometimes when I watch comedies, I can't see the soul of the show.…

— Michaela Coel

I want to make sure I'm climbing because there's no back-up. No one in my family has a house, and, regardless of…

— Michaela Coel

Where I grew up, in Aldgate, east London, one of the poorest boroughs in the country, I saw lots that was real…

— Michaela Coel

I'm way too honest. It can backfire.

— Michaela Coel

Inequality starts in the womb.

— Michaela Coel

Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people.

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I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people.

— Michaela Coel

You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.

— Michaela Coel

Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do.

— Michaela Coel