Sometimes Quote by Adam Sandler

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

— Jo Brand

I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I…

— Mackenzie Crook

When I started performing I was like, "Holy hell, how am I going to survive this?" I was giving it my all in 15…

— John Leguizamo

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

— John Bonham

I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn't know what to do, so I just…

— Julian Barratt

I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for…

— Dat Phan

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.

— Kevin Nealon

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to…

— Peter Serafinowicz

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't…

— Meredith Brooks

I had gigged so much from the age of 11 to 20 that I got to a stage where I actually got less nervous…

— Lewis Capaldi

I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of…

— Amanda Stott

Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave…

— Amy Schumer