Stand-up Quotes - page 13

This is a dream come true. HBO is the highest echelon in the world for a stand-up comedian to attain. Throughout my career I've trusted my instincts to lead me down the right path, and I am honored to work together with this network while contributing to the legacy that is HBO. (Dane Cook)
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. View quote
Dane Cook
I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things. View quote
Dane Cook
I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game. View quote
Dane Cook
I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it. View quote
Dane Cook
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary. View quote
Shel Silverstein
If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home. View quote
Patton Oswalt
Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up. View quote
Patton Oswalt
I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act. View quote
Patton Oswalt
Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines. View quote
Patton Oswalt
Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period. (Patton Oswalt)
I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do. View quote
Patton Oswalt
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on. View quote
Patton Oswalt
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. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them. View quote
Dylan Moran
I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else. View quote
Dylan Moran
Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport. View quote
Dylan Moran
For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show. View quote
Chris Rock
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy. (Al Pacino)
I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there. View quote
Kathy Griffin
I don't know if I would have been a stand-up comedian in Iran because, as you know, the government advocates free speech... but there's no freedom after you've spoken... It gets a bit deathy. View quote
Shappi Khorsandi
I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing. View quote
Eddie Murphy
No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres