Stand-up Quotes - page 6

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy. (Adam Savage)
I'm from Minnesota! I used to work Knuckleheads at the Mall of America as a stand-up. I spent New Year's there once. I'm not trying to namedrop. View quote
Billy Gardell
Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric. View quote
Billy Gardell
Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you. View quote
Billy Gardell
I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh. View quote
Bob Uecker
The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me. View quote
Charlie Day
Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.' View quote
Charlyne Yi
I definitely am a performer, and there are different styles of stand-up; I mean, some people are writers and they get onstage to get jokes out, and that's definitely not what I do. I like to just go up and, if I'm telling a story about someone, I'll play his or her part. View quote
Chris D'Elia
Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love. View quote
Chris D'Elia
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes. View quote
Chris Hardwick
If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics. (Chris Hardwick)
The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things. View quote
Colin Quinn
My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in. View quote
Colin Quinn
Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting. View quote
Colin Quinn
My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner. View quote
Cristela Alonzo
My stand-up act is very clean. View quote
Carol Leifer
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage. View quote
Carol Leifer
I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it. View quote
Carol Leifer
And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy. View quote
David Duval
When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me. View quote
Dean Norris
I hated stand-up. (Debra Wilson)
The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool. View quote
Donald Glover
When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. View quote
Dana Carvey
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. View quote
Dana Carvey
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors. View quote
Dave Foley