Day Quote by Deon Cole

The beautiful thing about stand-up advice is that it applies to anybody, any gender, any race, any age. The best thing you can do…

— Pete Holmes

Getting on stage doing standup anytime is hard. You never know what you're going to say. You live and die on your next word.

— Eddie Griffin

I tried do stand-up, and I was horrible. And I'll never do it again.

— Sean Hayes

The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now…

— Sarah Silverman

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do…

— Adam Sandler

If you want to do standup, you have to go on stage. That's the only way to get good - stage times.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I wanted to do standup, but I was too nervous. I felt it was too vulnerable basically to be yourself on stage.

— Lolly Adefope

I thought I would be too vulnerable on stage doing standup. I didn't want to get up there and say: 'This is who I…

— Lolly Adefope

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

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have…

— Patton Oswalt

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

— Steve Harvey

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I…

— Hal Sparks