Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.
Standing in Front of the Mirror of Eternity Dressed By True Existence Looking to Your Own Reality In the Ocean of Oneness
If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.
I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.
Being with you is like standing next to the sun. It's so hot you die if you don't move.
I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.
I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you're standing in front of one.
All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
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.
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
There is no better feeling in the universe, other than being married and having a family, than standing on stage behind a piano and having 5,000 people waving at you. You cannot bottle that.
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
Don't make being a girl or a victim part of your stand-up act. If you encounter sexism in the business, don't bring it on stage; it's not funny.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.
You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
