"It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are."

-- Wanda Sykes

#Voice Quotes #Comic Quotes #Persona Quotes

“With acting, it's like becoming another person. I think that's neat, especially when you totally forget. If you totally forget, which I love to do, that's when it's magic.”
“Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.”
“Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship.”

Source : Dennis Bakke (2010). “Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job”, p.98, PVG
“In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.”
“Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.”
“At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.”

Source : "Gallaudet University Interview With Former President I. King Jordan". Interview with Ken Adelman, www.washingtonian.com. March 1, 2006.
“In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.”
“No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

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