Anything Quote by Edward James Olmos

The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.

— Kevin Heffernan

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

— Louis C. K

I loved stand-up, but I never thought you could do it as a job.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the…

— John Oliver

I started standup and did it the way I wanted it to look. I did my thing and realized it made me happy and…

— Michelle Buteau

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

— Rita Rudner

I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too…

— Jo Brand

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

— Tracy Morgan

For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads…

— Nick Kroll

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

— Kevin Nealon

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

— Judy Gold

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

— Wanda Sykes