Standup Quotes
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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 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.
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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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Well I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand...
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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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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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You can’t stand up in a Cadillac, either.
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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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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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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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You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.
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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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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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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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A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.
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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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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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I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
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Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.
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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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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.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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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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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.
