Stand-Up Comedy Quotes

48 Stand-Up Comedy quotes by 39 unique authors

• When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be… — Dean Norris
• Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession. — Aziz Ansari
• I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion.… — Joy Behar
• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. — Dana Carvey
• I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing… — Dave Attell
• I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy… — Eugene Chadbourne
• A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that… — Johnny Knoxville
• I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because… — Dane Cook
• I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things. — Dane Cook
• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. — Dane Cook
• Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians… — Denis Leary
• I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater,… — Denis Leary
• I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in… — Steve Martin
• I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just… — Dennis Miller
• The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to… — Joe Rogan
• Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up… — Chris Tucker
• I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater wherever they would let me. Finally, I moved out… — Nolan North
• I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap. — Riz Ahmed
• Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle.… — Vir Das
• The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion. — Mike Birbiglia

Who Wrote These Stand-Up Comedy Quotes

39 authors contributed a total of 48 Stand-Up Comedy Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Stand-Up Comedy Quotes by Vir Das
• 3 Stand-Up Comedy Quotes by Kevin Hart
• 3 Stand-Up Comedy Quotes by Dane Cook
• 2 Stand-Up Comedy Quotes by Sam Kinison
• 2 Stand-Up Comedy Quotes by Dwayne Johnson
• 2 Stand-Up Comedy Quotes by Denis Leary
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Tracey Ullman
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Tim Allen
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Terry Wogan
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Steve Martin
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Riz Ahmed
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Pauly Shore
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Nolan North
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Mike Birbiglia
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Matthew Gray Gubler
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Kevin Spacey
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Keenen Ivory Wayans
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Judah Friedlander
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Joy Behar
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Johnny Knoxville
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by John Oliver
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Joe Rogan
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Jim Varney
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Jim Dale
• 1 Stand-Up Comedy Quote by Jeff Dunham