Standup Quotes
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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
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I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.
Steve Buscemi
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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.
Gerry Dee
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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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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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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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A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.
Josh Gondelman
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Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
Norman Vincent Peale
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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.
Nikki Glaser
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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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I still do standup.
Ray Romano
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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