Standup Quotes - page 2

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it. (Alan Thicke)
I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV. View quote
Ana Gasteyer
If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show. View quote
Adam DeVine
When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent. View quote
Aubrey Plaza
Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians. View quote
Aubrey Plaza
Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act. View quote
Brian Posehn
The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics. View quote
Chris Hardwick
A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen. View quote
Colin Quinn
I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup. View quote
Carlos Alazraqui
My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard. View quote
Gene Hackman
I'm fascinated by mankind, ... I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve. (Howie Mandel)
If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie? View quote
Howie Mandel
When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them. View quote
Hari Kondabolu
The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel. View quote
Ilana Glazer
For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place. View quote
J. B. Smoove
I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures. View quote
J. B. Smoove
I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience. View quote
J. B. Smoove
I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving. View quote
Julia Mancuso
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. View quote
Leonard Maltin
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well. View quote
Mackenzie Crook
A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes. (Carly Craig)
I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews. View quote
Martha Raddatz
I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know? View quote
Pauly Shore
But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain. View quote
Rob Delaney
I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act. View quote
Roger Craig Smith