Standup Quotes
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Gary was a real nice guy, a standup guy, fun to be with, ... He was a good guy. My kid worked with him; in fact, he worked with him only a couple of weeks ago.
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I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.
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A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.
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I have one idea of how to get more Democratic women to polling stations: Stand up for them.
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You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
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It's important to stand up to all forms of bullying, and it's even more important for those who are around you to be just as courageous and stand with you!
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We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.
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After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
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A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.
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What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?
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The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.
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I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
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I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.
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People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'
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Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.
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To those that feel down and out…Let today be the day you stand up & fight. Let today be the day you say I won’t quit.
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I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
