Top 1200 Stand Up Comedian Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm not a natural comedian.

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.

When are we going to see the rest of the world stand up for Muslims?

Growing up, I didn't really watch a lot of standup. I didn't know you could be a low-energy comedian. It was something I did daydream about, but in the way you daydream about becoming the president or something - it could never happen.

Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!

There's a real rebirth in the artistic community to stand up for what you believe in.

Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young women to be willing to take risks, to stand up for the things they believe in, and to step up and accept the challenge of serving in leadership roles.

If I don't do stand-up for two weeks, I get freaked out.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

I wanted to be a comedian.

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

I am not a comedian.

It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. When we have the courage and faith to live up to the best we know, we fulfill the purpose for which we came to this earth, and we provide an incentive for others to do the same.

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

I don't like labels. I have always fought against that as a stand-up.

I want the men of our nation to stand and take a stand against gender based violence.

What puts my mind at rest is knowing I'm a person of integrity. I really do stand for what I say I stand for. I'm real!

COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

I've always had a 'stand up for the people' type of personality.

I don't do drama. I'm a comedian.

I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public.

She [Hillary Clinton] had the courage to stand up.

I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

When you bottom out, you have to stand up and get going again.

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself.

The hardest thing in the world to depict dramatically is stand-up.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

I stand by what I believe in, I'm not afraid to speak up for what I think is right.

I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up.

I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?

I'm a comedian, not a politician.

You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone

I'm a goofball and a comedian.

I'm from Chicago. And I was an actor in high school and college, and I wanted to see if I could make a run of it in this job. So, I went downtown in Chicago, and I went up on a stand-up stage and did an open mic. It went well, so I'm like, 'Alright, I'll give it another try.'

I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

When you stand up in the morning, you look in the mirror and say, 'I'm black.' No. You wake up and you see yourself as a human being in the world, but you raise discussion and raise aggression, the anger that you confront every day of your life, whether you want to or not.

It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

Will the real Slim Shady, please stand up?!

I want Ron to stand up to Malfoy and punish him.

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it.

There's nothing nicer than getting a round of applause for turning up for work. It's amazing! You start work, and people clap. Do you know what I mean? And then they stand up and clap at the end.

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

When it comes to work ethics and business, I look up to Aziz Ansari. He's got everything together on his own terms. He does stand-up, comes out with books, and has his own show.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.

I grew up in the Midwest, and I was a short, fat, little Jewish kid... but it was just different. People didn't understand, so I had to deal with it. One day, I physically dealt with it, and it never happened again. I'm not saying that's the way to do it, but you have to stand up for yourself, period, end of story.

I know from doing stand-up, I don't want to do a joke that I don't trust.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

I wish that I had the guts to stand up for gay rights.

Dad had a huge influence on me. I really look up to him for his brave acts. He was an outspoken man. For him, if it was the right thing, he would stand up for the smallest guy around him.

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.