Standup Quotes
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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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Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand...
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You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.
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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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I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.
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I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.
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A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.
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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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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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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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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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I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
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Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in, even against those you love, and that can be harder than you think.
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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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We don't really have a star system in Canada, so to try and get people to watch your show or stand-up is always a challenge. That's the trick.
