Actor Quote by Judith Malina

I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought,…

— Julian Barratt

When you're an actor, people just take it for granted that you're really confident and can get up in front a stage full of…

— Georgina Campbell

When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire…

— Bill Engvall

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

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

The stand-up really helped because you know the feeling when something feels true, and you know the feeling when it feels false. You don't…

— Victor Levin

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely…

— Edith Evans

You know, when you do standup there are certain requirements that you have to do like you have to go on stage and when…

— Larry David

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

— Chris Tucker

I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.

— Valerie Harper

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 was new to acting on a stage in a narrative as opposed to acting on a stage as a stand-up. And like everything…

— John Mulaney