Top 1200 Stand Up For What You Believe In Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My first stand-up experience was in Tallahassee at a club called Potbelly's.

Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.

Stand-up's hard. It's one of the hardest things in the world, and it's really lonely.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

The greatest thing about stand-up is that it is the opposite of making a film.

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

Hearing 'This Is How It Feels' on the radio was an amazing feeling, like starting again. But I believe that, in the end, my name will be bigger then the Verve because of all those great tunes and the power of what I stand for.

My stand-up is far more rooted in reality than my Twitter.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

Bullying is not gonna stop, but we can at least be confident enough to stand up to it.

It's much harder to have a BBC One sitcom than to have a tour of stand-up.

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

My stand-up shows don't really have a theme but do have an interactive element to them.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.

Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

You have to work your way up - that's how I was brought up and what I believe in: working hard.

I believe I am a work horse. I believe that that is what our country needs. We need a president who will roll up our sleeves collectively as a nation and tackle the problems that we confront.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

I feel like we are in a community of people who sign up for these values who try to maintain them and wherever they are not yet respected, to stand up for people's rights to enjoy them, as well. And this is worth every effort.

I always think stand-up is the most brutal environment for a comedian.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

When you're nice, you're not bullying people. But when you're kind, you stand up against the bully.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

I've noticed a surge when I go out somewhere, or if I'm doing stand-up.

The folks in this counrty need somebody that will stand up for them.

You got to stand up and be a man. You can't just keep running off.

When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

I’m a bowling pin, even when I fall I’ll always stand back up.

I was getting up on stage and taking a bow as soon as I could stand.

I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage Do not believe in conjecture Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.

And this I do believe above all, especially in times of greater discouragement, that I must BELIEVE-that I must believe in my fellow people-that I must believe in myself-that I must believe in God-if life is to have any meaning.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV.

The life of a true, traditional stand-up is really unappealing for women.

People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.

I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

I just stand there up front and score the goals, because that's my job.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

I don't watch any other comedy, I don't study stand-up as an art.