Stand-up Quotes - page 2

I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon. (Hannibal Buress)
He slides into second with a stand-up double. View quote
Jerry Coleman
I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time. View quote
Jim Varney
I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian. View quote
Kevin Pollak
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not. View quote
Keenen Ivory Wayans
I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium. View quote
Matthew Gray Gubler
The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick. View quote
Peter Serafinowicz
The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really. View quote
Peter Serafinowicz
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap. View quote
Riz Ahmed
I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse. View quote
Robert Klein
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball. (Robin Ince)
I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22. View quote
Samm Levine
I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.' View quote
Samm Levine
I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom. View quote
Wanda Sykes
I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin. View quote
Steve Buscemi
I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much. View quote
Tracey Ullman
When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter. View quote
Adam Sandler
It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone. View quote
Rachel Weisz
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. View quote
Jim Butcher
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies. View quote
Zach Galifianakis
I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. (Ian McKellen)
We went to a club where singers and stand-up comedians performed in the hope of being discovered. A thin girl with bright red hair and sequined T-shirt reached the end of her passionately murmured song on a sudden shrill, impossible top note. All conversation ceased. Someone, perhaps maliciously, dropped a glass. Halfway through, the note became a warbling vibrato and the singer collapsed on the stage in an abject curtsy, arms held stiffly in front of her, fists clenched. Then she sprang to her tiptoes and held her arms high above her head with the palms flat as if to forestall the sporadic and indifferent applause."They all want to be Barbra Streisand or Liza Minnelli," George explained as he sucked a giant cocktail through a pink plastic straw. "But no one's looking for that kind of stuff anymore." View quote
Ian McEwan
On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you. View quote
Jim Gaffigan
I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically. View quote
Jim Gaffigan
Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none. View quote
Jim Gaffigan