Drama Quote by Martin Freeman

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

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do…

— Adam Sandler

I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I…

— Jack Whitehall

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

— Brett Gelman

I'd always been a performer, growing up in a theatre school.

— Courtney Act

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always…

— Seth MacFarlane

I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.

— Anonymous

I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I…

— Sarah Silverman

To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you…

— Michael Imperioli

I have a lot of friends who were stand-ups, and they just stopped after a while, because they didn't like that battle, or they…

— Patton Oswalt

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

— Roger Craig Smith

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