Wanda Sykes Quotes (43 Quotes)

It's fun coming back home. The crowds have so much love and support for me. They're really smart crowds and I love playing in D.C. for that reason.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

I'm really funny now.

I'm here today because I hated everything else.

Also, Def Jam came along, and everybody was doing it without really practicing or trying to be better comics, just trying to get on TV.

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.

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.

There is a double standard out there. Comedy is a male business it's not ladylike what we're doing. But at the end of the day, if it's funny, it's funny, and funny tends to quiet the criticisms.

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.

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

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

I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.

I'll never forget the first time my family came to see me do stand-up, ... It was an awful bombing. It was like a damn terrorist attack. I was onstage in Washington, D. C., and the audience was talking. Some of them even turned their backs to me. I was paralyzed. I couldn't even move. I just kept talking until I heard my mother yell out, 'Wanda Get off the stage'

Men don't hear women.

If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

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

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

I was really gifted at being able to construct a joke, but it's like they weren't even memorable, my first jokes, because they were so about nothing.

We have to get out there and touch the people and let them know that you are thinking about them and to try and lift their spirits and get awareness out there to the rest of the country.

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.

I don't know if it's a woman's tone of voice or training. Maybe guys are like, When I go home, I have to hear it. Right now I'm at work.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

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.

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

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.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

I know it sounds like the party line, but I just love doing this show, ... Larry is just an odd man, and in such an inappropriate way. He's funny. He's a genius, and he's so lovable. It's a treat to show up at work and yell at him.

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

Monster-in-Law, I'm not going to say anything bad about that girl. Everybody picks on her. And she doesn't deserve it.

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

I'm a big Cosby fan. I respect the man.

Of course, my mother would love for me to work clean,

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.