Wanda Sykes Quotes
Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
-
So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
-
Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
-
Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
-
I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
-
The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
-
Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
-
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
-
I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
-
The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
-
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
-
I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
-
We never wore burkas because Somalis had our own culture.
-
'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
-
I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
-
In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.
-
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
-
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
-
Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
-
I tend to hide behind my status of being a diva; it's easy for me to embrace that part of me and seek confidence by being a bit outrageous at times.
-
For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.
-
Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
