Top 1200 Stand Up Comedian Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

There's still a lot of racism in stand-up.

He slides into second with a stand up double.

I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

Stand up and walk. Move forward.

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

When you do stand-up, it's so autonomous: I can say anything.

When I was growing up, and other people I knew were getting into trouble, I was somewhere in a deer stand or going to bed early so I could be up before dawn to hunt turkeys. My love of the outdoors kept me solid.

Stand up, Chuck, let them see you.

You should always stand up for yourself.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.

If you see a bully, stand up to him.

I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.

Oh, listen, stand-up is my home.

It's important for everyone to stand up for what they believe in.

I need to stand up for the people of Wisconsin.

I want to stand up for free speech.

You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

I think it's kind of awkward when everyone knows you're gay but you don't say it. I had been thinking about coming out for almost a year before I did. I thought about it seriously on the plane ride home from the World Cup, while I was casually talking to my friend Lori Lindsey. She said, "Dude, you should just come out." She was right. Everyone in my life already knew. If you want to stand up and fight for equal rights but then won't even stand up for yourself and say "I'm gay" - that just started to feel weird.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.

I've trained with some of the best when it comes to stand up.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

I'm a little fighter and I stand up for what I believe in.

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right.

It's an amazing cause, Stand Up to Cancer.

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

If you don't have anything to stand up for, you fall for everything.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.

It's important to be involved and stand up for what you believe in.

As a performer, you get your 'thing.' You're the deadpan comedian, or the mad one, or the sexy one, and then you rely on that and mine that seam for years and years and you kind of forget who you were. There's this mask that you hold up between you and the audience that means they never get to see who you really are.

It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."

My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

Stand-up would be my worst nightmare.

You have to stand out if you want to move up.

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

Stand-up is mine. It's a part of me.

To be honest, I wasn't the best stand-up comic.

My stand-up act is very clean.

If you're a stand-up, you're more or less yourself.

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.

My sister is raised to know her value and to know that she stands behind no man. You know, when she gets a husband, you stand side by side, equal partnership. You stand behind no one cause you have to lift each other up. You can't do that if you're 30 percent of the value in your relationship or the household.

I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience.

There are things you stand up for because it’s right.

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.