Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
Because I was surrounded by so much negativity at some point that it took me going back and doing stand-up to realize, you know, people really like me.
Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots.
You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get hurt.
I really can't stand not to be loved. I really can't. If I walk into a room and feel there are people who don't really like me, I have to leave.
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.
I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.
Anywhere you are standing right now is like no where else on earth. So look at the cars, the trees, the buildings and soak it all in.
It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise
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.
Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.
For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.
For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
I stand behind my words – it’s just hard to see me because they’re so much bigger than I am.
