Standup Quotes
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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.
Cressida Cowell
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I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know.
Mike Binder
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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.'
Eric Lander
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We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
Esther Forbes
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I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.
Steven Michael Quezadaun
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I still do standup.
Ray Romano
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I'm in this for the long haul, I want to be doing this until I die. I am a standup comedian. I know a lot of people say I'm not, but I am.
Stewart Lee
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It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."
Norm MacDonald
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I've definitely seen people get angry or really uncomfortable with stuff I've made in the past. And my stand-up, if you could call what I do stand-up, is quite aggressive, too.
Brett Gelman
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I love standup and I haven't given it up.
Ray Romano
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Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow as a kid – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done.
Harry Shearer
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In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well.
Brad Williams
