Quotes About Stand-up

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

Jerry Seinfeld, he was doing Letterman show all the time, so he kind of had an excuse, that people know the jokes already. He didn't have time to do stand-up. A guy like me, I have no excuses.

I talk to my dad all the time, he's more like my buddy than my father, and he's not happy that I use him in my act. But I tell him, I have to get something out of this.

I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

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.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know.

Rehearsals are for gags.

The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.

Because I started doing stand-up relatively late - 29 - someone can shout something at me but it's not going to be as bad as some of the things I've experienced. I've lived a bit.

My CD, my first release, was at the Comedy Works in Denver, one of the best clubs in the country.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

I've done stand-up at airport Holiday Inns and that's where you feel like you're doing comedy for people that hate it.

The holy grail for me is just stand-up - It's always been that. If I can just tour and headline in stand-up, that's the dream. But I'll do anything that looks like fun, y'know?

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

That's what I do in my stand-up. I work hard and hone the material and after a while audiences expect what I do to be good.

I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

In giving birth, I knew that I would have to take a break after I had a baby; I just didn't know that it would be, like, six weeks long. Taking a six-week break was a very big deal for me. I have never taken that long of a break from stand-up other than my honeymoon, which was 14 days long.

I had come to New York seeking my fortune after a few years of honing my craft as a stand-up on the road.