And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to n...
Humor is so subjective, not everyone is going to get what you are peddling. Others will be offended when what you meant no offense whatsoever. Those are the stakes. You have to be able to stand up for yourself and what you’ve written. Comedy pushes...
If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but a blurred image; an image composed of thousands of tiny dots of paint. Stand back from the canvas and all those points of color merge ...
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
All of the signs we invented growing up and we never invented one for 'he's standing right behind you'?
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.
My heroes - people like Woody Allen - were stand-up comedians. Therefore, I always felt I should give it a go.
The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.
I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.
A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.
Giving up doesn't define you, but how you stand in every choice and fight in every decision you've made reflects your character.
Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.
Sometimes '30 Rock' was a struggle because I'd be doing the show and still be doing stand-up full-time.
For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.
It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
You think I can't get it up anymore, maybe? Lemme tell you, you eat enough garlic and it stands up every time.
People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.
When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.
