I did a movie a few years back, ‘Medicine for Melancholy.’ People will come up to me after a set and say, ‘I really love that movie. When are you going to do another one?’ Or ‘I loved you on ‘The Daily Show.’ Why did you leave?’ It’s kind of the same as saying, ‘I loved you in high school. You should have never left.’ Wyatt Cenac Read Quote
I feel like you can’t trust a cat. I feel like a cat’s got an ulterior motive. The moment you show any weakness to a cat, the cat is gonna take over. Wyatt Cenac Read Quote
I don’t do enough movies that I can call it a career. It really is sort of like summer jobs or something like that. It’s very much like holiday work as far as, okay, I do it, and I’m there for two weeks and hopefully am working really hard, and then it’s done, and I kind of go back to what I was doing before. Wyatt Cenac Read Quote
I enjoy doing standup, but when I’m 50, I don’t know if I’ll still enjoy doing standup. It might be one of those things where I find other palettes that I want to paint on and make comedic. Wyatt Cenac Read Quote
The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I’m writing, a situation where I’m in control, like standup or something of my own that I’m making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else’s project. Wyatt Cenac Read Quote
When we simply write a place off as, like, ‘Well, it’s just Trump country,’ for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It’s their country, too. Wyatt Cenac Read Quote
I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there’s a part of it that I feel this connection to. Wyatt Cenac Read Quote
So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things. Wyatt Cenac Read Quote
There are certain things that you can blast through a stereo. You can blast hip-hop. You can blast heavy metal. You can’t blast ‘All Things Considered.’ Wyatt Cenac Read Quote
