Wanda Sykes Quotes

The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I really got the bug for this life when I saw that people were laughing and saw the attention I was getting.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

It's good to do stand-up. It kind of wakes you up and makes you feel like you're doing something. You got the crowd right there. That's all fun.

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

I have no intention of retiring; I can't imagine not doing stand-up. That's where I started and where I'll be.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

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

I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.

I don't really do stand-up.

I want to own a comedy club.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I'd been doing standup since college.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.