Able Quote by John Oliver

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was…

— John Oliver

When I was doing stand-up, I had all these boundaries around what I would say. I think it made me a pretty bad stand-up,…

— Eva Victor

When I started doing standup, it was the first time I felt comfortable with myself. I think people I went to school with were…

— Taylor Tomlinson

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

— Kumail Nanjiani

There were some things I wanted to talk about. I wanted to talk about depression in public, I wanted to talk about being in…

— Neal Brennan

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

— Jeremy London

I had a crisis of confidence and ran away from being a standup for a while.

— Dominic Holland

Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

— Macaulay Culkin

The thing is, I always thought I could do stand-up, and so I just stayed focused on the belief that I could succeed.

— Bo Burnham

There was a combination of shyness and just fear of looking stupid that kept me out of a lot of interesting creative conversations that…

— Ron Howard

You have to remember, throughout my career, no one has ever really wanted to speak to me or wanted to sit down with me.

— Joe Budden

In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking…

— Eddie Izzard