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Mostly everything gets worse before it gets better.

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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
Everything
Mostly
Worse
Gets
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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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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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Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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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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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
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The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'
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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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You know what, I think maybe it's because men like to fart, and the host wants to be able to sit in his writers' room and just pass gas freely. Me, I'm a lady. I'm dainty. I know to get up and leave the room and go to my office.
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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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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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Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.
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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'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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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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I'm really funny now.
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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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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 was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.
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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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