Lolly Adefope

I'm such a good best friend.

I live with my boyfriend, but we never cook together. It's too stressful.

Online shopping. I spend the weekend browsing, but need the closure of a purchase before the new week starts.

I was a very dramatic pre-teen.

Making people laugh, I think, is very powerful.

Comedy is a cool thing, because, at least in my experience, if you're good at it and people know, they'll find out about you.

I didn't get into drama school after university. Looking back, I think I was really bad.

When I was younger and went on holiday with my family, I'd be almost agoraphobic. I would just want to be on my Game Boy and not speak to anyone.

A lot of people just kind of act as if it's their God-given right to be overpaid and on TV, but it just feels like there has to be a level of like: 'This is an exciting thing to be doing.' It's not just something that we're owed.

I thought I would be too vulnerable on stage doing standup. I didn't want to get up there and say: 'This is who I am. I want you to like me.'

The thing that attracted me the most was comedy acting and people like Catherine Tate and Olivia Colman; people doing funny voices and accents.

I wanted to do comedy, but I didn't grow up wanting to be a standup.

TV is kind of messed up in terms of stereotypes and who plays the leading man and leading lady.

It always felt that there were a lot of shows where there was a white lead female, who was attractive, and then I was being offered the kooky friend. And it was just like, 'Why can't this be the other way around?'

I want to keep the British side of my sense of humor.

You can hit the comedy, but a lot of 'Shrill' is also emotional.

I'm allergic to a lot of fruit and veg, but if I hide them in a drink, somehow my body doesn't notice.

Boots radiates a unique kind of class - not a glamour, but enough self-respect to not degrade itself with an in-store radio station.

If I was doing standup I would worry that someone would think I was being preachy, whereas, with a character, it always tends to be the opposite of what I think. You can get away with things.

Rihanna has revolutionized the beauty and lingerie industries, and that has an impact on the mental health of young women, who are measured by their beauty.

I remember someone told me Donald Trump may not leave after the election. It seemed like a fictional, almost science-fiction idea.

When I'm in Portland, I meet people who are hairdressers, they have a wonderful life, they go on hikes and do loads of things. Their career is just the thing they do to pay the bills. They enjoy it, but it's not this huge, continuous journey of trying to make it. And I'm attracted to that lifestyle, of just having a nice life.

Our generation are always go-getting, hustling.

I think there should be an app that's like Tinder, but it's to connect people at the same bars/restaurants who are both waiting for someone that's running late.

You want to find the balance of acknowledging privilege and acknowledging the disadvantages that you have.

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk about what I want to talk about.

I think not getting into Cambridge was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me.

You have to look at the effects of something like 'Little Britain,' of how the stereotypes it pushes has impacted society and the way people interact with each other.

Comedy should always evolve; it's so easy to punch down.

Steve Buscemi's the coolest man in the world, and Daniel Radcliffe is the sweetest man in the world.

I'm starting to play lots more naturalistic, realistic people than when I first started. Maybe because I was doing character comedy shows, and I was doing slightly weird, oddball characters with weird accents, those were the characters that I got cast to play - which made perfect sense.

Fat people aren't just fat people; they have so many layers to them, just like anybody else, that I think should be explored.

It's easy to look at a show with a diverse cast that's touching on topics that haven't been talked about and to think, 'Oh, this is just political correctness; this is just box ticking.'

I think sometimes as an actor your career and life are kind of dependent on other people's decisions, what other people tell you, what time other people tell you to get up in the morning, what lines people tell you to say.

I've learned to adapt to a situation, to make the best of it.

I think with 'Ghosts' it's slightly affected my image of what ghosts would be. Before I didn't really think about it that much.

There was a point when I was doing loads of shows that weren't getting a series two and I was like, 'One day, I'll be in a show that comes back.'

Comedy is changing. The appetite for more diverse stories is getting bigger.

Yeah, Patrice Johnson is an incredible actress. She makes it real easy to cry when she cries.

My friends wonder how I have the patience to engage with people on Twitter about topics such as diversity and why black British history should be taught in schools: surely it's exhausting? And they're right.

I'm a Virgo. That is me. To a tee. Me and Beyonce. And Amy Winehouse! Same birthday.