Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

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.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

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

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

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

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

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
Wanda Sykes

If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

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.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

I had real big boobs, and I just got tired of knocking over stuff. Every time I eat, 'Oh, Lord'. I'd carry a Tide stick everywhere I go. My back was sore, so it was time to have a reduction.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

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

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

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.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

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

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes

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