Become Quote by Jimmy O. Yang

For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television…

— Jim Gaffigan

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung…

— Steve Buscemi

Stand-up comedians know how to walk into a room, even if you're not performing, just read the temperature of a room, and can easily…

— W. Kamau Bell

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about…

— Natasha Leggero

I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as…

— Ray William Johnson

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

— Judd Apatow

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than…

— Kunal Nayyar

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

Stand-up comedians have a very important relationship to Twitter. For them, it's a place to try out material.

— Sheila Heti

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

— Vance Havner

I don't have to pad my resume. Normal people are astounded by my resume, because normal people never let their dreams get beyond their…

— John Layfield

“Normal people don’t know how lucky—how blessed—they are.”

— Darren Shan