Quotes About Performance

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.

I can't stand up in front of people. It just fills me with horror.

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well.

I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right.

Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.

You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.

I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

My father was the one who used to stand up in the middle of a number to flutter his lips and make sputtering sounds into lyrics.

I did try and do some spooky stand up once, and some of my stand-up had - I tried to do some horror stand-up, but it didn't really work very well.

It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself.

I am the type of person who relishes the chance to stand up and perform under pressure. I have had to do that my whole career.

I tend to develop my rambling anecdotes by actually getting up and performing them. That's the joy/horror of stand up - if you have the germ of an idea that you think might be funny, there is a way of finding out if it's funny very quickly.

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

If you are considered as favourites, you have stand up and deliver. You can't make too many mistakes. You have to be the best.

When you are doing stand up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X-Men version of yourself, with lasers coming out of your eyes.