Latest Chelsea Handler Quotes from Interviews

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• As a woman, we should all stop talking about it and just acknowledge what's happened and act like we own the space, because we do.

  Chelsea Handler

  Talking, Space, Should

  Source: variety.com

• It's like being a stand-up comedian is what leads to being a talk-show host. That life is not cut out for a woman, being on the road at these disgusting hotels. What girls want to do that? Gross guys want to do that. I think that the dearth in female comics is just the nature of the business, but there certainly isn't a dearth anymore, so I think it's just silly.

  Chelsea Handler

  Girl, Silly, Cutting

  Source: variety.com

• [Late-night host] is not really a job for a woman. You can't have kids and be a late-night host.I mean Samantha Bee has children, but you're there all day and all night. No one has a life outside of it. I would never try to have a family. I care much more about a career anyway, than having a family, so that's my own prerogative. It's just not something that a woman.

  Chelsea Handler

  Jobs, Children, Mean

  Source: variety.com

• Obviously you want to be smart enough to take other people's advice and take that into consideration, and obviously try to surround yourself with people that are smarter than you. As far as sticking to your guns, I think there is no better advice than to just find something that you really give a s - about and then go do it.

  Chelsea Handler

  Smart, Thinking, Gun

  Source: variety.com

• I think being able to have follow-through, I think a lot of people who are in charge, that is the one quality that you can't forsake. You can get opinions, but you can't have too many cooks in the kitchen when you're envisioning something.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, People, Kitchen

  Source: variety.com

• I think when I envisioned my documentaries, what I wanted to do when I left, I had no business doing those documentaries. I didn't know what I was doing. I was delving into an arena that I had no experience in, and Netflix paired me up with two documentarians that really executed my vision perfectly. That was great, to see that. All of a sudden I'm at Sundance, and those are premiering. I just thought, "Wow, they were four ideas I pitched one day, and now it's coming to fruition on this scale."

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Source: variety.com

• When you have a vision, you have to see it through, and you can make anything happen. You really can, especially in this [entertainment ] industry.

  Chelsea Handler

  Vision, Entertainment, Happens

  Source: variety.com

• I like to just follow what I find compelling. In order for me to be compelling, I have to be compelled. I don't try to think about what people are interested in seeing, I have to be interested. For me, that works the best.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: variety.com

• You've got guys on freeways with motorbikes with no helmets on, you can't drink until you're 21 and we wonder why so many youth are smoking f - ing cannabis, and you can start driving here at 15. How f - ed up is that?

  Chelsea Handler

  Smoking, Guy, Driving

  Source: variety.com

• I'm not going to blow up just for the sake of it, because it's on TV. That's not the issue.

  Chelsea Handler

  Blow, Issues, Sake

  Source: variety.com

• People push my buttons, so I'm going to react.

  Chelsea Handler

  People, Buttons

  Source: variety.com

• We set up a bakery called Bad Boy Bakery, to cook on the inside to sell on the outside. It was huge, because it got them working. I'd give them a certificate to go back in the community with a skill. They could get a job. We set up a little bakery and it's gone crazy. I need to be that raw to do the glossy stuff. I need to get back to that kind of scenario.

  Chelsea Handler

  Jobs, Crazy, Boys

  Source: variety.com

• I haven't been manipulated. I did a documentary in prison years ago because I was so f - ed off with those lazy bastards in their bed for 18 hours a day, five dishes a day on a menu to choose from, playing soccer every day, going to the gym, watching movies.

  Chelsea Handler

  Soccer, Years, Lazy

  Source: variety.com

• Being that frank and being that open, there's more praise than there is negativity. It's just the negativity gets printed because you're straight and f - ing rude. It's not rude, it's just getting straight to the point.

  Chelsea Handler

  Rude, Negativity, Praise

  Source: variety.com

• That's the problem in my industry. Anyone can go and open a f - ing hotel. Anyone can go and buy a restaurant. It's not like a doctor or a lawyer, you need certain qualifications. That's the issue.

  Chelsea Handler

  Doctors, Issues, Needs

  Source: variety.com

• I couldn't go any higher with three Michelin stars. I mastered my craft. I'm still learning and picking up ideas.

  Chelsea Handler

  Stars, Ideas, Three

  Source: variety.com

• We're not actors, we're people behaving like ourselves on TV. We're both [me and Gordon Ramsay] exactly who we are on TV. I don't think either one is an exaggerated version. You just have to be who you are.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, People, Be Who You Are

  Source: variety.com

• Before any exposure on TV, I'm a real chef.

  Chelsea Handler

  Real, Tvs, Chef

  Source: variety.com

• I think it's important to be authentic to who you are, and if you're inauthentic at all, people smell that from a mile away.

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, Smell, People

  Source: variety.com

• As you get older, then you finally come back around full circle when you don't give a s - anymore and you decide I'm going to just tell the truth to everybody. I don't give a s - if anybody likes me.

  Chelsea Handler

  Circles, Giving, Full Circle

  Source: variety.com

• Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

  Chelsea Handler

  Lying, People, Adults

  Source: variety.com

• We're doing a bunch of shoots with kids about the election, about politics, about racism. I like to talk about heavy topics with kids because you find out what their parents are feeding them at home, and then you find out their quick reactions to things. It's so refreshing when kids are so honest.

  Chelsea Handler

  Home, Kids, Racism

  Source: variety.com

• It's unfiltered conversation and I love it. I also like to argue with children, so it's the perfect platform for me.

  Chelsea Handler

  Children, Perfect, Arguing

  Source: variety.com

• [Gordon Ramsay] knows about being bullied, because look at the size of him.

  Chelsea Handler

  Looks, Size, Being Bullied

  Source: variety.com

• People who have experience and credentials, they should be talking about that [Donald Trump presenting on TV]. I know everybody cares about ratings, but come on. The whole world is watching.

  Chelsea Handler

  Talking, People, World

  Source: variety.com