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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
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Writer
Portsmouth
Virginia
Wanda Sykes-Hall
Wanda Yvette Sykes
Wanda Yvette Sykes-Hall
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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 going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain't too bad!
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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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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I'm always thinking of stuff I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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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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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?
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I don’t understand why people really get upset about something that doesn’t affect them at all.
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Once you start making money, you can be an ass. But I am not an ass. I'm too lazy, that takes a lot of energy.
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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 sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
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Since when did I become the spokesperson for nappy-headed hos?
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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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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
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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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When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up I like the freedom.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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There are just so many more laws and rules that apply with marriage that do not come with domestic partnership and also to me it's the commitment.
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