Stand Up Comedian Quotes - Page 2

• I'm very much a stand-up comedian in my heart. That's really what I do. Now I'm trying to incorporate all of the different elements of my work as a performer, and use it as a stand-up comedian.

  Margaret Cho

  Heart, Comedian, Trying

  "Sing out, sister". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

  Stephanie Miller

  Growing Up, Comedian, Carols

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 22, 2006.

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• I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.

  Stephanie Miller

  Morning, New York, Growing Up

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 22, 2006.

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• I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

  Steven Michael Quezada

  Years, Comedian

  "'Breaking Bad's' Gomez on 'Ozymandias': At Least 'I Didn't Get Melted in Acid' (Q&A)". Interview with Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Ive been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

  Diane Neal

  Silly, Years, Comedian

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• A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

  Vir Das

  Party, People, Guy

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• You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from Star Search or Survivor or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

  Steve Zahn

  Stars, Kids, Play

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 6, 2003.

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• I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.

  Ray William Johnson

  Kids, Rocks, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

  Samm Levine

  Believe, Years, Comedian

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• I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.

  Brian Regan

  Smart, Rejection, Comedian

  Source: www.citypaper.com

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• 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.

  Steve Harvey

  Husband, Father, Pride

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

  Eddie Murphy

  Comedian, Comfortable

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• I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, Comedian, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Vir Das

  Bored, Comedian, Routine

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• I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

  Kevin Nealon

  Comedian, Actors

  "Kevin Nealon On His New Special, The End Of ‘Weeds’ And His Worst Acting Experience". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.

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• It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

  Harvey Pekar

  Comedian, Novelists, Doing Me

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

  Chris Tucker

  Creative, Comedian, Being Funny

  "Chris Tucker wants to 'do something different'". Interview with Miki Turner, www.today.com. August 7, 2007.

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• I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

  Kevin Pollak

  Space, Creative, Comedian

  Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. March 08, 2012.

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• I'm a stand-up comedian-turned-actor-turned-vampire at night.

  Vir Das

  Night, Comedian, Vampire

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• George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.

  Denis Leary

  Comedian, Ends, Gifted

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• To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.

  Steve Harvey

  New York, Thinking, People

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• I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  Wendy Liebman

  Comedian, Festivals, Mail

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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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• I don't consider myself a stand-up comedian. I consider myself a performer; a comic as opposed to stand-up comedian. Stand-up comedians stand there and do their bits; I break every rule in creation. If there's a rule that can be broken in stand-up, I'll do it.

  J. B. Smoove

  Broken, Comedian, Creation

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• So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and they started finding out I was a stand-up comedian.

  Chris Tucker

  Girl, Comedian, Clubs

  "Chris Tucker earns, dreams big". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2001.

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