Top 1200 Stand Up For What You Believe In Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

I can do four shows in a row singing no problem. Four shows in a row stand up, my voice is destroyed. I'm a storyteller so I act out a lot of characters and I act out a lot of situations and I'm distorting my voice and imitating characters I run into. I'm actually more exhausted doing that than I am with the rock shows, believe it or not.

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up

The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, 'Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day.' And 15 years later, I did.

Normal people don't become stand-up comedians.

People have this misconception that I'm going to beat them up when I meet them. But it's like... no. Just 'cause I stand up for myself, and I'm honest, that doesn't mean I'm going to beat people up all the time.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

I want to stand up for Britain's national interests.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work.

As an only child, you've got to stand up for yourself.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me.

The thing about marriage is that I believe in it, but don't believe in it. I think sometimes people put that ring and that paper and it messes up a good thing.

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

For me, I've always tried to be a stand-up individual.

What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.

Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting.

Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.

Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble

When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up.

If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.

I have strong views and beliefs. And I stand up for those.

I tried do stand-up, and I was horrible. And I'll never do it again.

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.

When I found stand-up, it was like finding home.

Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e.

I stand up all four quarters even when I'm not playing.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

I've never been able to write for stand-up.

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the front row. Afterward, I walked up and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to marry you one day". And 15 years later, I did.

That is why I took up the gun - not to shoot, not to kill, not to destroy, but to stop those who would do evil, to protect the vulnerable, to defend democratic values, to stand up for the freedom we have to talk ... about how we can make the world a better place.

I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

When millions of people stand up and fight...they win.

The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still believe in empathy? Do we still believe the protection of the weakest among us? These are yes or no questions, but the means of communication is all tied up with those virtues and you can't abandon those virtues as you pursue them.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association.

That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.

Don't ever be ashamed of the Gospel. Stand up, and be bold.

I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.

You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.

Geezers might say, 'I wouldn't wear make-up even if I was going on TV,' but why not? You'll look better. I can most frankly be called a geezer - I've earned the right to be called a geezer, a proper stand-up guy, that kind of thing - and if I can wear make-up, so can you.'

Stand up and walk out of your history

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

When you stand up there on top of the world, you become so humble.