Stand Up Comedy Quotes - Page 3

• It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.

  Tom Green

  Independent, Rocks, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Kevin Hart

  Personality, Acting, Pads

  "The "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Grateful, Writing, People

  "Jim Gaffigan Talks to Brian Regan About Hating Being Called a 'Clean' Comedian, Resisting Hollywood, and Playing Big Venues". Interview with Jim Gaffigan, www.vulture.com. September 23, 2015.

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• 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.

  Mark Leyner

  Thinking, Interesting, Comedy

  Interview with Brian Joseph Davis, www.believermag.com.

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• I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch stand-up comedy.

  Gary Gulman

  Thinking, People, Comedian

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• I personally have no interest in being a star or a celebrity. I want my stand-up comedy and how I think as a comedian to be recognized and successful.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Stars, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• 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.

  Dane Cook

  Taken, Thinking, Games

  "Dane Cook Goes for Laughs in Good Luck Chuck". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 13, 2007.

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• While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

  Tim Allen

  Giving, Judging, Together

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

  Dane Cook

  Able, Way, Comedy

  "Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

  Dane Cook

  Years, Needs, Comedy

  "Interview: Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

  Dane Cook

  Directors, Comedy, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Denis Leary

  Trying, Speech, Comedy

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

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• I missed the whole thing [X-files series]. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and pieces of it in maybe season seven or eight or something, and then was very busy doing whatever else, stand-up comedy and stuff throughout the world. Now I'm watching the show right from the beginning.

  Rhys Darby

  Thinking, Eight, Pieces

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's not song lyrics but it's kind of like song lyrics. It's not rap but it's kind of like rap. And it's not stand-up comedy but it is kind of like stand-up comedy. It's all those things together.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Song, Rap, Mean

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

  Jim Dale

  Song, Singing, Nine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Dan Dierdorf

  Football, Thinking, Hbo

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• New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

  Adam Savage

  Beautiful, New York, Giants

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• When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.

  Vir Das

  Comedian, India, Bills

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• Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Wrestling, Inspire, Comedy

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• 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.

  Evan Davis

  Clothes, Comedy, Sometimes

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• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  Sam Kinison

  Art, Comedy, Form

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• 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.

  Judah Friedlander

  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.

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• Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

  Dave Foley

  Two, Poverty, Comedy

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 15, 2002.

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• I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Thinking, Funny Things, Ivory

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• You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

  Brion James

  Comedy, Knows

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