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Top 30 Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes (2025 Update)

Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.”

1. “Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.”

2. “People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I’m just calm under fire. I’m not intimidating at all.”

3. “I’m just calm under fire. I’m not intimidating at all.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there’s always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.”

4. “Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there’s always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.”

5. “There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “We do nods to Charlie’s Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.”

6. “We do nods to Charlie’s Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “Slot machines are like crack for old people.”

7. “Slot machines are like crack for old people.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you’re trying to generate material, then you’re going to generate stuff. It’s not going to be great, it’s just going to be stuff.”

8. “Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you’re trying to generate material, then you’re going to generate stuff. It’s not going to be great, it’s just going to be stuff.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I put heavy emphasis on the characters.”

9. “I put heavy emphasis on the characters.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “Just making a good movie is hard to do.”

10. “Just making a good movie is hard to do.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.”

11. “I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “It’s rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn’t respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.”

12. “It’s rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn’t respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.”

13. “In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “All I need is a camera and I’ll make things happen.”

14. “All I need is a camera and I’ll make things happen.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.”

15. “My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they’re in the screen.”

16. “I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they’re in the screen.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.”

17. “You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I’m not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I’m much more of a thinker.”

18. “I’m not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I’m much more of a thinker.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.”

19. “I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.”

20. “The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.”

21. “We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.”

22. “You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it’s allowed to be seen.”

23. “A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it’s allowed to be seen.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.”

24. “You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people’s face, then you’ve got to come up with new stuff every year. We’re in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.”

25. “I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people’s face, then you’ve got to come up with new stuff every year. We’re in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “We’ve seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can’t make any movie and it will be good.”

26. “We’ve seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can’t make any movie and it will be good.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.”

27. “I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “You just can’t make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.”

28. “You just can’t make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.”

29. “I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn’t really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.”

30. “I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn’t really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.”

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Keenen Ivory Wayans Quote: “I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.”

31. “I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.”

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