Cole Sear: You ever feel the prickly things on the back of your neck? Malcolm Crowe: Yes. Cole Sear: And the tiny hairs on your arm, you know when they stand up? That's them. When they get mad... it gets cold.
Annie Hall: Sometimes I ask myself how I'd stand up under torture. Alvy Singer: You? You kiddin'? If the Gestapo would take away your Bloomingdale's charge card, you'd tell 'em everything.
Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
It never ceases to amaze me that whenever generally misunderstood groups of people try to stand up for themselves or simply spread awareness about the thing that makes them different, people sigh in exasperation and assume that said people are demand...
I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of ...
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand u...
Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.
But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.
The man who cannot listen to an argument which opposes his views either has a weak position or is a weak defender of it. No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding. And it has been wisely said that the man who knows only ha...
I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.
I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have. For instance, if you wake up to the sound of twittering birds, and find yourself in an enormous canopy bed, with a butl...
I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.
There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.
Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.
I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.
I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.
By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died.
When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
