Stand-Up Quotes

295 Stand-Up quotes by 176 unique authors

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take… — Margaret Cho
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. — Tim Allen
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did… — Sherri Shepherd
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
I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the… — Jim Varney
Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music. — Tracy Morgan
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic. — Pauly Shore
The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience. — Howie Mandel
As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success… — Jimmy Carr
I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. — Chris Tucker
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life. — Chris Tucker
I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but… — Aziz Ansari
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
I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough… — Matthew Gray Gubler
I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up. — George Lopez
Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it… — Jeff Dunham
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some… — Jim Dale
Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan. — Russell Peters
I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it. — Carol Leifer
My stand-up act is very clean. — Carol Leifer
It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that… — Harvey Pekar
Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch. — Craig Charles
The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud… — Aries Spears
I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five… — Questlove
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York… — Adam Savage

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