Acting Quote by Jay Mohr Download Open image “There seems to be a weird ceiling to being a stand-up as far as acting.” — Jay Mohr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acting Ceilings Seems
I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Acting is embarrassing for me. Stand-up had to be taken away for me to consider it. — Taylor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way, you just… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life. — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought,… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle. — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But acting is… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
You remember from watching the show, there are no "jokes." That's why if you see people on Twitter accusing me of being a "joke… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
My wife and I have long discussions about [George] Carlin, and we refuse to accept that he died an atheist. It's just, confounding. When I talked to Kelly [George Carlin's daughter] about it, she said that George Carlin once took her at about 12 years old and said, "I've figured it out." And he says it in one of his… — Jay Mohr Copy Share
I remember I used to go to The Laugh Factory and just goof off onstage, and then I'd see Dane Cook. He did a bit about his Mom making the bed in the summertime when he was a kid. He just said "Vroom!" and threw the sheet up in the air and the sheet would just stay over the bed… — Jay Mohr Copy Share
I didn't want to fight a guy from England. What if I lose? Not that English guys aren't strong, but who wants to get… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week... It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
First of all, my wife writes half my act. I don't know how I could "steal" from my wife. — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
If there are 1,500 people in a theater and they're all there to see you, there are no other guys. You're the guy. So it is a monastic life, it is very lonely, if I was prone to loneliness. It's a lot like wrestling, no one can throw a block for you, no one can give you a pass. Nobody… — Jay Mohr Copy Share
I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be. — Kenny Wormald Copy Share
Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly… — Laura Regan Copy Share
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
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