Latest Trevor Noah Quotes from Interviews

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• I hope America manages to steer itself away from partisanship and back to patriotism; we are all Americans. And as long as I can make people laugh and feel better, I'm happy.

  Trevor Noah

  Feel Better, Long, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

• America is dealing with the effects of an underreaction to Donald Trump when he was running and when he was Mr. Saying-Racist-Things-on-the-News.

  Trevor Noah

  Running

  Source: www.glamour.com

• If I could get an honest answer, I would ask Trump. "How much money would you want in order to leave the presidency?" Because I think he would have a number, strangely enough. Then we'd know how much to launch the Kickstarter for.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Honest, Enough

  Source: www.glamour.com

• When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

  Trevor Noah

  Believe, People, What If

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I had this skewed idea of feminist: I thought it meant being a woman who hates men. When I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists, I was like, "Oh, this is what my mom taught me. This is simple. I don't understand why everybody is not this."

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Hate, Simple

  Source: www.glamour.com

• When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

  Trevor Noah

  Race, Talking, Voice

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Space, World

  "‘Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah discusses his new gig". www.chicoer.com. April 21, 2018.

• If you can't trust your president to get the right information on a Googleable fact, then can you really trust him with the harder stuff? Which, by the way, is everything else the president of the United States has to deal with.

  Trevor Noah

  President, Information, Stuff

  Source: www.smh.com.au

• Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.

  Trevor Noah

  Opportunity, Quality, Redeeming Qualities

  Source: www.smh.com.au

• Donald Trump does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.

  Trevor Noah

  Appreciate, Criticism, Doe

  Source: www.npr.org

• Donald Trump was appealing to a lot of people with his populist message.

  Trevor Noah

  People, Messages, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

• Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch.

  Trevor Noah

  Watches, Trump, Entertaining

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 201.

• When I was learning how to box, that was the number one thing my trainer taught me. He said you can't get angry at every single time I hit you because that's why you're here. You're going to get hit. Acknowledge that you're going to get hit and now focus on how you're going to fight properly. And living through the times is exactly the right way to put it because I have seen a slice of this only on a different continent.

  Trevor Noah

  Fighting, Numbers, Focus

  Source: www.npr.org

• [Donald] Trump ditched his press pool. That's just stupid and funny. Get over it. You know, [Bill] Clinton ditched his press pool. This is something presidents do sometimes. Don't make everything that Trump does a scandal because what'll happen is you'll diminish the real scandals, you know? You've got to get over the fact that you hate the person and rather focus on what you're trying to do.

  Trevor Noah

  Hate, Real, Stupid

  Source: www.npr.org

• I do feel like I have a sense of the times. A lot of the things America is experiencing now, I feel like I have lived through. I think there is a cause for concern.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, America, Causes

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

• You get help at the gym. No one complains about that. You get help from your trainer. That's commonplace, and I think we need to spend more time doing that with mental help. You know, a lot of us have issues that we don't work on and we don't deal with, and I try. I try my utmost.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Issues, Trying

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

• I think all of us should seek help, and not help is in a - you know, help shouldn't be seen as a frightening thing. Help shouldn't be seen as a weak thing.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Helping, Weak

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

• I go - I trace depression back to things. So I go, ok, I look back and I say my self-esteem was affected because of my skin and because my family had no money and I was ashamed of how poor I was. And I look at all of that and I was trying to hide myself. And so I felt like I was less than I was. And so that then leads to you being depressed. And I work on these things.

  Trevor Noah

  Self Esteem, Skins, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think we need to get rid of is improving our minds and our mental health. You know, when when you suffer from depression, you go this is something that I have and I can work on it, you know? I often think of depression, though, as more of a - as more of a symptom than a cause.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Mind, Suffering

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

• I know that in South Africa, we were in that space, and we're still suffering from that space. And that was where a government very successfully convinced the majority of a population that every single person there was blocking the other people from achieving greatness in the country, only to realize that we were all being oppressed at the same time. That's one of the biggest things. And I'm proud to say that.

  Trevor Noah

  Country, Block, Greatness

  Source: www.npr.org

• I've just come to realize I'm going to share my point of view. Some people won't like me for it. Some people will. I will work every day to be as honest as I can because I do believe that we're all trying to get to the same place. But various people have tricked us into believing that we are not. And I see America going into that space.

  Trevor Noah

  Believe, America, Space

  Source: www.npr.org

• I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were like, oh, you silly ignorant person who's just come to this world. You clearly shouldn't be at "The Daily Show" 'cause you don't know what you're talking about. And I was like, but I don't know. He seems like he connects with people. I can relate to him as a performer. I can see what tools he's using. He's good at riffing. He's good at taking the crowd on a journey. I can see what he's doing.

  Trevor Noah

  Silly, Journey, Talking

  Source: www.npr.org

• When Donald Trump won the election because when I came into the show, I said, I think this guy can win. This was when he first came down that escalator. He gave his first speech.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Winning, Guy

  Source: www.npr.org

• I lived in a world where I didn't share the love for my stepfather that my mother shared for him. She married him.

  Trevor Noah

  Mother, World, Married

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

• I've come to learn as an adult that love is a hell of a drug. It's one of the most dangerous things that human beings can have. It's also one of the most beautiful things that human beings can possess because love, on one hand, gives you the ability to care for a human being sometimes more than you would care for yourself. Love, unfortunately, sometimes gives you the ability to forgive somebody and blind yourself to the truth.

  Trevor Noah

  Beautiful, Love Is, Hands

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.