Standup Quotes
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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 -
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.
Nikki Glaser
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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.
Eve Babitz -
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.
Cynthia Lord -
I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
Steve Buscemi -
I believe the ones who stand up for what we say, which is stay inside the Eurozone, try to fix some things in the memorandum and try to help Greece get out of this mess without leaving the Eurozone, without leaving Europe.
Eva Kaili -
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 -
There hasn't been an original voice in stand-up since Sam Kinison.
Norm MacDonald
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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 -
I still do standup.
Ray Romano -
I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.
Steven Michael Quezadaun -
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 -
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 -
Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever.
Norm MacDonald
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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 -
I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.
Eric Greitens -
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 -
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 -
The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.
Sarah Silverman -
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 just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.
Norm MacDonald -
It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
Ezra Pound -
We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.
Benjamin Carson -
I'm a big fan of Louis CK - I think he's a master of standup.
Ezra Furman