If you want to be a stand-up comedian or an artist, you move to New York. — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing. — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
“Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame. — Aron Flam Copy Share Image
I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role. — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. — Stephanie Miller Copy Share Image
“You can't take a crash course in comedy, there is no crash course in comedy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to… — Wendy Liebman Copy Share Image
Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far… — Kunal Nayyar Copy Share Image
Whoever calls and asks me to do stuff and obviously, with having your own TV show, people want you to get involved.… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I… — Wendy Liebman Copy Share Image
It's like being a stand-up comedian is what leads to being a talk-show host. That life is not cut out for a… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
Conclusions are based in time. We live in time. So any definition of success is bound up with time. With other things… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company,… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out… — Nathan Rabin Copy Share Image
I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as… — Kevin Pollak Copy Share Image
I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22. — Samm Levine Copy Share Image
I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice. — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor. — Patrick Huard Copy Share Image
A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So,… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success!… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
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