My passions are stand-up comedy, hard rock and metal, and baseball and the Mets. — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and… — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
Dylan Moran, my favourite comedian, was walking down the street in Edinburgh. I nearly got run over as I sprinted up to… — Lady Amelia Windsor Copy Share Image
I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
“I found a gray hair one of my testicles the today. No, it wasn't mine, but it's frightening.” — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out… — Johnny Knoxville Copy Share Image
At Evergreen you can create your own major and your own classes. So I actually studied stand-up comedy. — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the… — Phoebe Fox 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
Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
When you're standing around for an hour doing stand up it's no big deal but when you're standing around watching a show… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of -… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
I missed the whole thing [X-files series]. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
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![“I missed the whole thing [X-files series]. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and pieces of it in maybe season seven or eight or something, and then was very busy doing whatever else, stand-up comedy and stuff throughout the world. Now I'm watching the show right from the…” quote by Rhys Darby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/348/rhys-darby-12111_bits_i-missed-the-whole-thing-x-files-series_57503.jpg)