Doing Stand Quotes
49 quotes by 43 authors
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My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.
— Lewis Black
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I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.
— Jo Brand
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I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many…
— Jo Brand
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I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.
— Steve Buscemi
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When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I…
— Bernie Mac
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Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people…
— Dave Chappelle
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I’ll always be doing stand-up as long as people are still interested in seeing me.
— Chelsea Handler
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When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
— John Oliver
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak.…
— Gabriel Iglesias
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Ive been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
— Hal Sparks
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I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what…
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
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I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories…
— Laurie Notaro
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There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.
— Hal Sparks
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If I could make crazy money just doing stand-up, that's what I would do.
— Jen Kirkman
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There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
— Carol Leifer
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I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
— Jenny Eclair
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When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.
— Kevin Nealon
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Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected…
— Janeane Garofalo
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When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.
— Rob Brydon
Who Wrote These Doing Stand Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 49 Doing Stand Quotes, led by these top contributors: