When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.
Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.
I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me.
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
From a very early age, the message is drilled into our heads: Failure is bad; failure means you didn’t study or prepare; failure means you slacked off or—worse!—aren’t smart enough to begin with. Thus, failure is something to be ashamed of.
I have a whole set of problem-solving behaviors and I am anxious to use them, in much the same way that I would stand up on the train to give my seat to someone who seems to need it more than I do: here is something I can address, and I do, and all i...
Nat: Maybe you broke something. Midge: I know. Never fall down, never fall down! Nat: Ah, it's nothing. I fall down every morning. I get up, I have a cup of coffee, I fall down. That's the system. Two years old, you stand up and then BOOM! seventy ye...
[Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all you really were there at the time, weren't you? How else could you remember it? But he...
And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...
The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it's a part I can do something personal with.
What's cool about Twitter is that you can make a joke about something very of-the-moment or random that I wouldn't be able to joke about in stand-up.
Some people brag about standing for something so hard and so much, that they do not realize that they are actually sitting.
Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.
Mrs. Gloop: Don't just stand there, do something! Willy Wonka: [unenthusiastically] Help. Police, Murder.
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
