Actor Quote by Julian Barratt

I never decided I wanted to be an actor. I just started doing standup because I love standup. Everything else has sort of been…

— Kumail Nanjiani

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

There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to…

— Barry Sonnenfeld

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

— Brett Gelman

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

With stand-up, it's really easy to get complacent and do the same jokes over and over because you know they work. You have fun,…

— Michelle Buteau

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

— Valerie Harper

I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it…

— Natasha Leggero

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only…

— Judith Malina

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

— Doug Stanhope

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

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