Acting Quote by Baron Vaughn

It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But acting is…

— Jim Gaffigan

I never decided I wanted to be an actor. I just started doing standup because I love standup. Everything else has sort of been…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just…

— Zach Galifianakis

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up…

— Robin Williams

Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just…

— Jim Jefferies

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

— Jermaine Fowler

I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought,…

— Julian Barratt

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted…

— Demetri Martin

I was new to acting on a stage in a narrative as opposed to acting on a stage as a stand-up. And like everything…

— John Mulaney

Acting is embarrassing for me. Stand-up had to be taken away for me to consider it.

— Taylor Tomlinson

I think once I found stand-up, it was like, 'Oh... this is so much better than acting! I get to perform but I get…

— Taylor Tomlinson

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one…

— Kevin Hart