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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

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 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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I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.
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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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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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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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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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Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.
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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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You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.
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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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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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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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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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Some black people want to get in touch with their African roots. But then you got some black people that just don't give a damn. You tell them, 'Hey, I just got back from the motherland.' They're like, 'Where'd you go - Detroit? Did you see The Temptations?'
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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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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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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 noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing.
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