Top 90 Wanda Sykes Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.”

— Wanda Sykes

52. “All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.”

— Wanda Sykes

53. “Good comics stick around. There are people who have TV shows that might be successful, but comics can’t really fake it. If you say, ‘Hey, I love what you guys are doing – you’re funny,’ then you’re in. It’s legit.”

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Wanda Sykes

55. “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.”

— Wanda Sykes

56. “I really can’t pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.”

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Wanda Sykes

58. “How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?”

— Wanda Sykes

59. “I feel today’s society is so judgmental.”

— Wanda Sykes

60. “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.”

— Wanda Sykes

61. “Whatever I talk about is what I’m interested in at the time. Politics are big with me. But being a mom is taking up most of my time. My act is more family-oriented than it is about politics.”

— Wanda Sykes

62. “Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.”

— Wanda Sykes

63. “Why don’t you marry another gay guy? That was fun...”

— Wanda Sykes

64. “The first time onstage, a light went on. ‘OK, this is my thing. I’m comfortable here. This is my thing.’”

— Wanda Sykes

65. “I was funny around my family. My family, they’re pretty funny, too.”

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Wanda Sykes

67. “Men don’t hear women.”

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Wanda Sykes

69. “What gets me is when celebrities aren’t allowed to have an opinion on anything political. There’s the whole ‘Shut up and sing’ thing.”

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Wanda Sykes

72. “I love Costas. He’s knows too much, but he’s a good guy.”

— Wanda Sykes

73. “Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up.”

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Wanda Sykes

75. “I always had one goal, and that was to be a real funny stand-up comic, and that’s pretty much what I’m doing. And everything else is kind of like gravy – TV, movies.”

— Wanda Sykes

76. “But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I’ll hear it, but the men will keep talking.”

— Wanda Sykes

77. “I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that’s what he needs.”

— Wanda Sykes

78. “It’s easier to rip somebody to shreds while you’re making them laugh.”

— Wanda Sykes

79. “I watched a lot of comedy growing up.”

— Wanda Sykes

80. “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

81. “It’s hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.”

— Wanda Sykes

82. “I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.”

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Wanda Sykes

84. “I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house.”

— Wanda Sykes

85. “I’m going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain’t too bad!”

— Wanda Sykes

86. “I’m really funny now.”

— Wanda Sykes

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

— Wanda Sykes

88. “I don’t like doing the same material over and over again. It’s not fun.”

— Wanda Sykes

89. “Writers get to stay with the piece. They don’t just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.”

— Wanda Sykes

90. “Whether you have a show or not, you can still be somewhere being funny.”

— Wanda Sykes