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  • I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

    Years   Four   Comedy  
    "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.
  • When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

    Men   Target   Comedy  
  • Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

    Class   Voice   Creative  
  • I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

    Rap   Inspiration   Stuff  
  • 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.

    Fighting   Tape   Comedy  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

  • Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.

    "Joan Rivers Dead: Hollywood Mourns Comedian" by Hilary Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2014.
  • Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

    Trying   Speech   Comedy  
    Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin
  • Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

  • Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

    Interview with Brian Joseph Davis, www.believermag.com.
  • I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

  • In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.

    Book   People   Comedian  
    Source: www.portlandmercury.com
  • Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.

    People   Comedy   Hours  
  • An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the audience. Figure out what you're feeling or interested in because the goal is to get the audience interested in what you're interested in. Good stand up comedy is drawing people into your head.

    Drawing   People   Goal  
    Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”
  • Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

    Stress   Night   Want  
    "'30 Rock's' Judah Friedlander: 5 Things You Didn't Know About Me" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 12, 2012.
  • A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

    Giving Up   Careers   Guy  
  • Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

    Doe   Want   Comedy  
    Source: www.rezxmag.com
  • Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

    Jobs   People   Sick  
  • As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

    Real   Benefits   Comedy  
    "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.
  • I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.

  • I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

    Steve Martin (2008). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
  • I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go

    Football   Thinking   Hbo  
  • I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.

    Lonely   Winning   Light  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.

    Taken   Thinking   Games  
    "Dane Cook Goes for Laughs in Good Luck Chuck". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 13, 2007.
  • There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.

    "The "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.
  • I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you go from being attractive to where they [directors] decided you're out... I feel like with stand-up comedy, it doesn't matter if I've gotten fatter.

    Acting   Age   Directors  
    Source: www.portlandmercury.com
  • When you're standing around for an hour doing stand up it's no big deal but when you're standing around watching a show for an hour - it's a big difference. It's annoying - your feet hurt, your back hurts - it's just not the most comfortable way to see stand-up comedy.

    Hurt   Differences   Feet  
    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.

    Trust   Comedian   Hips  
  • It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.

    Special   Done   Want  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

    Men   Doors   Acting  
    "Ice Cube and Kevin Hart pair up for a ride". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2014.
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