Standup Quotes

• I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Working
  • Families
  • Standup

• Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Standup
  • Marginalized
  • Left Out

• 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.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Confidence
  • Comics
  • Standup

• I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrated

• I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • Legal

• Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand...

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Hand
  • Mountain
  • Edge

• Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You run into roadblocks and barriers. You overcome obstacles. You fall down. I mean you have to fall down to learn to stand up.

  

  Chuck Ragan
  • Learn
  • Obstacles
  • Overcome

• Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Up
  • Real
  • Comedy

• A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.

  

  Josh Gondelman
  • Laugh
  • Tension
  • Standup

• 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.

  

  Robin Williams
  • School
  • Left
  • Clubs

• You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

  

  Aaron Russo
  • Life
  • Right
  • Standup

• 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.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Film
  • Laugh
  • Standup

• 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.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Jokes
  • Point Of View
  • Convey

• I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

  

  Ray Romano
  • Family
  • Values
  • Spokesman

• Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

  

  Etta James
  • Stage
  • Standup
  • Sang

• It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

  

  Sophocles
  • Fear
  • Hair
  • Standup

• 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.

  

  Gerry Dee
  • Watch
  • Standup
  • Trick

• Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Standup

• Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.

  

  Stewart Lee
  • Audience
  • Dialogue
  • Standup

• 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.

  

  S. E. Cupp
  • Women
  • Values
  • Leading

• Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in, even against those you love, and that can be harder than you think.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Against

• 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.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Idea
  • Comic
  • Troubadour

• 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.'

  

  Eric Lander
  • Human
  • Differences
  • Signatures

• Either you can lie down or you can stand up and say, 'I'm going to be a man about it, go out and deal with the pain and help my team win.'

  

  Bob Sanders
  • Team
  • Pain
  • Win

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