Most Quote by Paul F. Tompkins

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have…

— Patton Oswalt

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 best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people…

— Aries Spears

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do.…

— B. B. King

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

It's the best thing in the world to be onstage, but not when you can barely stand up.

— Ida Maria

You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.

— Louis C. K

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

— John DiMaggio

As a result of being on 'SVU' and 'Homicide' all these years, there's a lot of people who don't know I used to do…

— Richard Belzer

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

— Billy Gardell

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

— John Oliver

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said…

— Eric Bana