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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.

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 always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that's pretty much what I'm doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy - TV, movies.
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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'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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I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.
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With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.
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I'm really funny now.
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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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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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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 watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
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If you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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When my parents send me emails the first 3 are blank.
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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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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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I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.
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I feel today's society is so judgmental.
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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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