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" I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored. "

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" If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it. "

" I have problems with YouTube and things like that, when you catch it mid production. If I'm doing a show and I'm working on a bit and someone's there with a phone, they record it and put it online - it's not the finished product. "

" What drives the creative person is that we see it all. "

" It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes. "

" 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. "

" I worked with people like Edward Snowden. Well, not people who took stuff home. "

" 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. "

" I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig. "

" I'm here today because I hated everything else. "

" I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me. "

" A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh. "

" Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do. "

" Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it. "

" I'm a huge Sia fan. I love Sia, I have just about all of her stuff. "

" D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it. "

" I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am. "

" My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on. "

" I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me. "

" Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality. "

" To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat. "

" I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things. "

" If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you. "

" I think sometimes celebrities can hurt a candidate. You don't want people to judge them on your last project. "

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

" Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal. "

" My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice. "

" If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too. "

" I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance. "

" Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going. "