“I don't understand why people really get upset about something that do...” — Wanda Sykes Quote

“I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.”

“I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.”

“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.”

“If I feel my child is being deprived of anything that could affect her progress as a person, then I become extremely neurotic and douse the situation with as much help as humanly possible.”

“Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.”

“Acting is nothing but reacting, so if your co-stars react in a particular way, it does affect your acting as well.”