Audience Quote by Aries Spears

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other…

— Pauly Shore

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

— Billy Gardell

When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire…

— Bill Engvall

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more…

— Elayne Boosler

It's good to do stand-up. It kind of wakes you up and makes you feel like you're doing something. You got the crowd right…

— David Spade

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

— John Oliver

For me, stand-up is going to be forever, and everything is to make sure that I build an audience for my stand-up as I…

— Chris Redd

A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is…

— Zach Galifianakis

When I started stand-up, the people I admired most were the people who were the most themselves onstage.

— Paul F. Tompkins

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

— Bob Newhart

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I…

— Hal Sparks

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front…

— Jerry Seinfeld