Top 100 Wayans Quotes
#1. I worked with Marlon Wayans on the show 'They Wayans Brothers,' and we hit it off. One thing about Marlon, when he casts a movie or a TV show, he expects you to bring it. You've got to be ready to improv, because Marlon will say anything, and you've got to be ready to come back.
Kym Whitley
#2. I'm from New York, and yet I've done only one film executive-produced by Spike Lee and have never done a film that Spike Lee directed. I've never done a film that Keenan Wayans has directed, or Bill Duke.
Ving Rhames
#3. When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell, the Wayans, Adam Sandler - they get it. And I've always felt that Andy Samberg is the future of comedy.
Terry Crews
#5. If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it's a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing.
Casey Wilson
#6. If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'
Scott Baio
#8. I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights.
Marlon Wayans
#9. I had to do the full body shave for the first coupla weeks of 'White Chicks,' then I said, 'You know what? I'm just gonna be a hairy white chick 'cause this is too much!
Marlon Wayans
#12. In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#13. If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
Shawn Wayans
#14. Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#15. The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
Damon Wayans
#16. My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#17. Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.
Shawn Wayans
#18. But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
Damon Wayans
#19. I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.
Marlon Wayans
#20. And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
Damon Wayans
#21. Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans
#22. Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.
Marlon Wayans
#23. The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#24. I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.
Kim Wayans
#25. Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.
Marlon Wayans
#26. I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted ... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.
Marlon Wayans
#28. We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
Damon Wayans
#29. 'Scary Movie' has lost its way as a franchise. It has turned into 'Disaster Film' and 'Epic Movie' and 'Date Movie' and that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to do a movie that was just grounded in a reality that went to crazy places.
Marlon Wayans
#31. I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#32. Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.
Marlon Wayans
#33. I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.
Marlon Wayans
#34. We like writing with each other; it's fun.
Shawn Wayans
#35. We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.
Shawn Wayans
#36. Nobody loves me. No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn't pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of the film.
Marlon Wayans
#37. Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people - the ones paying attention - that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.
Marlon Wayans
#38. There's a certain level of comfort that comes when you move in together. The mystery is gone. She starts dressing for bed in your pajamas, cream on her face, Uggs, curlers. What happened to the sexy girl that used to come to bed in lingerie? The girl says, 'We don't need to act.'
Marlon Wayans
#39. You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
Shawn Wayans
#40. Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart; so articulate, such an amazing speaker; such a passionate man. He's humble.
Marlon Wayans
#41. We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.
Shawn Wayans
#42. Im sorry it's just a little case of PMS that's all ... Im just one big emotional wreck ... Could you guys go get me some Midol and a Snicker
Shawn Wayans
#43. We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels.
Shawn Wayans
#44. I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#45. You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#46. I want to be remembered as a guy who's not going to change your life but who is going to change your mood. As a guy who made you smile and say, "I miss him. He was a lot of fun."
Marlon Wayans
#47. I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#48. I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#50. 'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I'm just going, 'Wow, I'm in that.'
Marlon Wayans
#52. Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#55. My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
Marlon Wayans
#56. It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#57. You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck.
Marlon Wayans
#58. For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.
Shawn Wayans
#59. I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'
Marlon Wayans
#60. I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys.
Marlon Wayans
#61. They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.
Shawn Wayans
#63. Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.
Shawn Wayans
#64. My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
Damon Wayans
#65. My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
Damon Wayans
#66. It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#67. I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on.
Shawn Wayans
#68. I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'
Marlon Wayans
#69. Now we have to hit them from a different angle.
Shawn Wayans
#70. Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.
Marlon Wayans
#71. Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#72. I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.
Marlon Wayans
#73. With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.
Marlon Wayans
#74. I see a funny guy who's imperfect, but has a great heart and no vanity when it comes to what he'll do to get a laugh. I see a guy who loves his art and loves his family, and who is willing to live and die for both.
Marlon Wayans
#75. We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#77. I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people.
Marlon Wayans
#78. I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#79. If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.
Marlon Wayans
#80. We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#81. My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17 ... he didn't play around.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#82. I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#83. Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
Damon Wayans
#84. A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable.
Kim Wayans
#85. A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#86. If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
Marlon Wayans
#87. I hate cooking. But I do make the candied yams every year at Thanksgiving. And they're awesome! You could definitely get diabetes and cavities from them, but they're delicious!
Marlon Wayans
#89. I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.
Marlon Wayans
#90. One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.
Marlon Wayans
#91. Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.
Marlon Wayans
#92. You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#93. I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#94. I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.
Marlon Wayans
#95. I used to watch all my friends play with G.I. Joes. I couldn't afford them.
Marlon Wayans
#96. Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
Damon Wayans
#97. You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else ... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#98. I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife.
Marlon Wayans
#99. We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.
Marlon Wayans
#100. Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.
Marlon Wayans
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