Stand-Up Quotes

295 Stand-Up quotes by 176 unique authors

My heroes - people like Woody Allen - were stand-up comedians. Therefore, I always felt I should give it a go. — Stephen Merchant
I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out - I will gallop. — Miranda Hart
I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian. — Steven Michael Quezada
By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died. — Jen Kirkman
Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most. — Judah Friedlander
When I found stand-up, it was like finding home. — Bobby Lee
When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class. — J. B. Smoove
Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was… — J. B. Smoove
Lewis Black taught me stand-up. — Nate Corddry
I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches… — Hari Kondabolu
I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started. — Mary Lynn Rajskub
Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me. — Bernie Mac
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person. — Robin Williams
For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy. — Kevin Hart
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 that… — Kevin Hart
Stand-up is my baby. — Kevin Hart
I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up. — Hannibal Buress
I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun… — Hannibal Buress
The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do. — Kevin Heffernan
Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a… — Ike Barinholtz
The first time I did stand-up was on a dare. — Judy Gold
I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days. — Ashley Wagner
Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great… — Jason Alexander
In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North America. I went to see a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks,… — Howie Mandel
A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara… — Terry Wogan

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