Acting Quote by John Mulaney

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

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

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was…

— Baron Vaughn

I think once I found stand-up, it was like, 'Oh... this is so much better than acting! I get to perform but I get…

— Taylor Tomlinson

I've done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was…

— Judy Gold

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

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

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

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 was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it wasn't until…

— Baron Vaughn

Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.

— Jenny Slate

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in…

— Chris D'Elia