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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
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Portsmouth
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You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.
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I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
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I feel today's society is so judgmental.
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People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.
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Yeah, I had top-secret clearance and everything.
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All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.
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I'm really funny now.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
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I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. But he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. Rush Limbaugh, 'I hope the country fails' - I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.
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I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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What gets me is when celebrities aren't allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There's the whole 'Shut up and sing' thing.
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But I think funny and talent will always win out I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.
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