Quotes of: Standing-up Keyword

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

Dana Carvey

I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.

Michael Showalter

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

Hal Sparks

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

Jack Quaid

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

Jerry Seinfeld

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

Lewis Black

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

Russell Peters

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

Ariana Grande

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the on...

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I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

Matt Bomer

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.'

Johnny Vegas

I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

Drew Carey

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Patton Oswalt

What exactly does the I in FBI stand for?” ~Maggie Mae Castro

Wake Up Maggie

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Rob Brydon

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Roddy Doyle

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

Steven Wright

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

Kumail Nanjiani

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

Carol Leifer

A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

Zach Galifianakis

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

Chelsea Peretti