Cancer Quote by Denis Leary

I've never done stand-up; I came via small-scale touring theatre, through the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, then I got employed on that…

— Mark Williams

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said…

— Eric Bana

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…

— Kevin Hart

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

— Tracy Morgan

I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stand-up. I've always improvised, and stand-up…

— Robin Williams

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

— Jermaine Fowler

I loved working in stand-up, and I always dreamed that I could make a movie about it. I didn't know if I would have…

— Judd Apatow

I never decided I wanted to be an actor. I just started doing standup because I love standup. Everything else has sort of been…

— Kumail Nanjiani

Stand-up is so rewarding, and I enjoy the acting opportunities I've had, but the only time I really feel bad is when I feel…

— Jim Gaffigan

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

— Steve Buscemi

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

— Bob Newhart

I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always…

— Kevin Durand