Kim Wayans

You know, its interesting to me that so much of the population is living under the poverty line, but when you look at television, you would think that everybody is upper-middle class or wealthy.

Reality shows take up so much programming. They take up slots from scripted shows that could be about something.

I just thought that if you are going to do a one-woman show you need to come with it, you know? Don't just stand there doing characters. You need to have something to say.

You don't even realize how much stress you're under living in a big city until you pack up and go somewhere else for an extended period of time.

Part of the artist's journey is fulfilling your own personal desires and everybody has different ideas about things they'd like to accomplish creatively.

I looked to my brothers, I looked to other people to basically tell me who I was. But deep inside I knew who I was and I knew what I wanted to do.

When I was young like that, I didnt really trust my voice.

I love Kimberly Elise. I think shes an awesome talent. Ive always been drawn to her as a person and what she stands for. And shes a fellow naturalista like myself.

Ive never had a perm; I used to have it straightened with a hot comb, back in my 'A Different World' days.

Natural hair is so liberating, youre most beautiful when youre not hiding.

Life is a process of change, everything is changing: your relationship, your behind, everything is always in flux, so if you get attached to what you looked like at 20, then youre in for a really rough ride.

The heart stays the same, the body changes but the spirit stays forever youthful.

I was always dragging my poor mother to some school production, and sometimes shed be so embarrassed shed want to slide under the table, because, you know, all the other little girls had on their cute little pink tutus and here I come with a curtain on and a lampshade on top of my head!

Im the person who cries at the drop of a hat, whos always reminding everybody to be kind, whos bringing 40 people together for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

In my 20s, I was 16. So I was a late bloomer. I was still very much a child when I was in my 20s.

You know, its like, as an artist you want to express your full self. You dont want to either have to make em laugh or make em cry if you can do both.

I realize what I am capable of and one day I can see myself doing a Kim Wayans show.

You know with the help of my humble beginnings and my big feet I am able to stay grounded.

If you look there is humor in every situation like your Aunt eating up all the food at the funeral or the lady sitting next to you at the bus stop.

I enjoy doing comedy that is why I pursue it. I believe that life is hard enough already and full of drama so I find things that are funny to use as material.

I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a constraint that we created so that we feel like we have control of something we have absolutely no control of.

To me, I think love is the cure all.

Oftentimes unhappy, unfulfilled people with a relationship thats pulling them apart channel so much of their expectation and so much of their energy in a very unhealthy way on their children.

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.

A mothers love is supposed to be unconditional.