72 Quotes by Marlon Wayans

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.

'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.

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

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.

With parody, you're referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.

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

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

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.

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.