Standup Quotes
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I don't care if I ever hit radio, and I don't care if I ever get any bigger than this. I just wanna stand up for artistry because that's what really matters in music
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I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.
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Comics, a lot of them, are really depressed people, and I happen to be somebody that does have a lot of confidence. That's the odd thing about my stand-up. I am very confident. I always was.
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I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.
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You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
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I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.
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You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.
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Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
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America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
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Eating a RAW food lifestyle is the purest and best way to live. Many of the strongest and longest living animals are raw, such as the panda bear and gorillas. Self love has brought me to a RAW lifestyle. Feeding my body with pure natural energy. Most people's perception is what has been ingrained inside them by manipulation, but slowly there is a shift in consciousness, one person at a time. People will ask more questions, begin to stand up for themselves, go their “own way”, take better care of themselves, which will benefit everyone and everything around them.
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At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.
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Televised stand-up never really makes me laugh. The only one I ever saw that I liked was Richard Pryor, and that was shot on film.
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For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.
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You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.
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Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.
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My standup is years and years of me working things out on the road. I'm really proud of it! A lot of it is about, well... I don't know why I feel this way, but I feel like every special or show I do is some variation on how I feel like I'm not a girl, not yet a woman.
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We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'
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A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.
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We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.
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Dinner is completely scripted. There are some improv elements, but I'm not interested in pranking people. It's more like a play than standup.
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I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.
