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Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand. — Damon Wayans

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen. — Shawn Wayans

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself. — Damon Wayans

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

Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up. — Shawn Wayans

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about. — Damon Wayans

Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk. — Damon Wayans

Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that. — Damon Wayans Jr.

My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

Slot machines are like crack for old people. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys. — Marlon Wayans

I used to watch all my friends play with G.I. Joes. I couldn't afford them. — Marlon Wayans

Now we have to hit them from a different angle. — Shawn Wayans

I'd like to see a ghost. It would confirm there's an afterlife. — Marlon Wayans

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

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch. — Shawn Wayans

There's an art to comedy. — Marlon Wayans

If Damon Wayans is not breaking, it's a miracle. He is so funny that he makes everyone die laughing. — Casey Wilson

What a beautiful chocolate man! — Shawn Wayans

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

You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park. — Shawn Wayans

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

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.' — Marlon Wayans

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

Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working. — Marlon Wayans

I want to be believable in anything I take on. — Marlon Wayans

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.

You need to be lucky in life, but it's also what you do with your luck. — Marlon Wayans

We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories. — Damon Wayans

And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor. — Damon Wayans

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it. — Marlon Wayans

I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything. — Marlon Wayans

God, please help me! I can't go through — Damon Wayans

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV. — Shawn Wayans

I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud. — Marlon Wayans

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

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light. — Damon Wayans

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke. — Shawn Wayans

We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels. — Shawn Wayans

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny. — Shawn Wayans

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories. — Kim Wayans

But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did. — Damon Wayans

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head. — Damon Wayans Jr.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross. — Shawn Wayans

The show has become my therapy. — Damon Wayans

You can kind of feel when things are going to work out. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

Just making a good movie is hard to do. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

People who are innately funny are innately disturbed. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles. — Marlon Wayans

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

Yo! Hold my poodle! — Shawn Wayans

Triple T, K A.... time to totally kick ass. — Marlon Wayans

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages. — Damon Wayans

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

I grew up in the projects. You have no choice but to fight. My jokes used to get me in fights. — Marlon Wayans

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

This town was built on nepotism. — Damon Wayans

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

I never thought about being famous. — Damon Wayans

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up. — Damon Wayans

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone. — Damon Wayans

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue. — Marlon Wayans

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted ... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director. — Marlon Wayans

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

Just do your best," Mom said. "You can't do any better than your best. — Kim Wayans

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

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

Get this jiggaboo away from me! — Shawn Wayans

We like writing with each other; it's fun. — Shawn Wayans

A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable. — Kim Wayans

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing. — Marlon Wayans

I put heavy emphasis on the characters. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

I've got Democratic skin, but a Republican pocket. — Marlon Wayans

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers. — Zach Galifianakis

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are. — Marlon Wayans

You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human. — Shawn Wayans

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting. — Shawn Wayans

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous. — Damon Wayans

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen. — Keenen Ivory Wayans