Stand-up Quotes - page 10

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles. (Norm Macdonald)
I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do. View quote
Zach Galifianakis
A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong. View quote
Zach Galifianakis
I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way. View quote
Tina Fey
I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up. View quote
Louis C.K.
There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it. View quote
Louis C.K.
You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.' View quote
Louis C.K.
I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight. View quote
Ariana Grande
Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up. View quote
William Shatner
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. View quote
Steve Martin
When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain. (John Oliver (comedian))
I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.' View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine. View quote
Kate Clinton
I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else. View quote
Lewis Black
I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute. View quote
Lewis Black
I've been very lucky. There are guys I know who are really terrific in this business of stand-up who have not gotten the recognition they deserve. And it's nice, if you've put in the time, to achieve that recognition. (Lewis Black)
My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road. View quote
Lewis Black
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise. View quote
Lewis Black
I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did. View quote
Seth MacFarlane
I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies. View quote
Zooey Deschanel