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I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian. -- Steven Michael Quezada
I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. -- Chris Tucker
I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22. -- Samm Levine
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. -- Jim Butcher
I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor. -- Patrick Huard
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
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
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
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
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
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
I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying. -- Jessie Cave
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
It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone. -- Rachel Weisz
Whoever calls and asks me to do stuff and obviously, with having your own TV show, people want you to get involved. They know you're a stand-up comedian so they're always looking for somebody funny to host an event. -- Chelsea Handler
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
The real focus at first is to just become a good stand-up comedian, and then when you get to a certain level, then they allow you to do other things. You feel if you're overwhelmed by something or if you're not. -- Jon Stewart
I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry. -- Wendy Liebman
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
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
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
And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quiet think where Cleggy gets this from, I don't know. Prehaps he is cosidering an alternative career, as a stand up comedian, once he's out of politics. -- Nigel Farage
This is a dream come true. HBO is the highest echelon in the world for a stand-up comedian to attain. Throughout my career I've trusted my instincts to lead me down the right path, and I am honored to work together with this network while contributing to the legacy that is HBO. -- Dane Cook
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
I'm a stand-up comedian-turned-actor-turned-vampire at night. -- Vir Das
I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor. -- Kevin Nealon
I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22. -- Jenny Slate
Ive been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly. -- Diane Neal
I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible. -- Judd Nelson
I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing. -- Eddie Murphy
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. -- Camille Paglia
I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role. -- Marcus Brigstocke
I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. -- Stephanie Miller
I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes. -- Felipe Esparza
I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice. -- Reggie Watts
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
I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character. -- Eugene Levy
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. -- Dennis Miller
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
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think. -- Stephan Pastis
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

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