Up Quotes

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

Leslie Marmon Silko
- Great
- Growing
- Stories
When I'm acting, I just come up with people I've known, and I stick with it.

Dove Cameron
- People
- Up

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older.

JoJo
- Experience
- Hair
- Boy
One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'

Randy Houser
- Life
- Time
- Music
I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.

Aisha Tyler
- Up
- Writing
People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

Dave Chappelle
- People
- Up
- Wall
Josh Gad was in my class. Katy Mixon. Griffin Matthews. Josh Groban - he ended up leaving to become a huge star, but he was in our class in freshman year. I remember Josh was this nerdy kid in a turtleneck with a voice from heaven.

Leslie Odom, Jr.
- Remember
- Heaven
- Star
In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

Chris Lilley
- Up
- Comedy
- Hero