Cost Quote by Bill Maher

Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

— Uta Hagen

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do.…

— B. B. King

You don't bring people down to your show and expect them to stand there and look at your shoes.

— Tony Kanal

I felt that, as time went on, an audience gets to know you and in a weird way, you kind of feel like you…

— Craig Ferguson

When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With…

— Don Rickles

Being known doesn't get you anywhere; it just makes the bar and the expectations higher, especially if the venue wants to charge a certain…

— Whitney Cummings

It's one thing to hear that someone likes your show; it's a completely different thing to have them come take their time and film…

— Billy Eichner

There's a tacit agreement between myself and the audience that I will entertain them when they buy their ticket, and I've been the one…

— Woody Allen

You know, you're doing the same show every day, and your inspiration, you have to look no further than the fact that you know…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal…

— Kathy Griffin

People buy a ticket to see your show, so from the moment I get onstage, I can have no insecurities, because they're already there.…

— Afrojack

When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a…

— Judah Friedlander