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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
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Portsmouth
Virginia
Wanda Sykes-Hall
Wanda Yvette Sykes
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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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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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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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My neighbor, she invited me to an Elvis party. I told her I couldn't come 'cause I'd be too busy making fun of her from behind my blinds.
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When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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I watched a lot of comedy growing up.
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L.A. is nothing but a bunch of driving, and I hate all that damn driving 'cause it interferes with my drinking.
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I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.
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Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.
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I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.
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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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But I understand that relationship I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.
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