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We want to enable Start-Ups and make India no 1 in this field. Start-Up India and Stand-Up India! -- Narendra Modi
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. -- Dwayne Johnson
Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh. -- Kumail Nanjiani
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. -- Sam Kinison
I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things. -- Dane Cook
I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging. -- Colbie Caillat
Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch. -- Craig Charles
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 really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free. -- John Oliver
Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are? Nothing is as good, except maybe having a baby. -- Howie Mandel
The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both. -- Joe Rogan
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that. -- Bobby Seale
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
I've been very lucky. There are guys I know who are really terrific in this business of stand-up who have not gotten the recognition they deserve. And it's nice, if you've put in the time, to achieve that recognition. -- Lewis Black
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process. -- Robin Williams
Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live. -- Amy Poehler
I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he led 3,000 people on a conga out of the tent and across the entire site to a vegetarian food truck. -- Marcus Brigstocke
In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up. -- Eddie Izzard
While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of that. While I was doing 'Mystery Team,' I started practicing stand-up. While I was doing stand up, I got 'Community.' It's like I planted trees six years ago, and now they have fruit. -- Donald Glover
When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago. -- Joe Rogan
I don't have any ego about it, but I find there's not a great work ethic in show business. A lot of people are in it to make money, and coming from stand-up, you have to work so hard because almost nothing works, and if you lose the audience for three minutes, you're dead. -- Norm MacDonald
I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they're beautiful things when they're done. -- Jerry Seinfeld
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies. -- Zach Galifianakis
I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting. -- Hannibal Buress
One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age. -- Nick Cannon
The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I stand up to people. -- Keith Olbermann
My stand-up act is very clean. -- Carol Leifer
Fall ten times, stand up eleven. -- Shannon L. Alder
Stand up and walk. Move forward. -- Hiromu Arakawa
I'm a stand-up comedian-turned-actor-turned-vampire at night. -- Vir Das
Stand-up would be my worst nightmare. -- Steven Pasquale
Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession. -- Aziz Ansari
I started doing stand-up in college. -- Carlos Alazraqui
I love stand-up comedians. I really do. -- Jim Gaffigan
When the people stand up, imperialism trembles. -- Thomas Sankara
I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian. -- Steven Michael Quezada
Please don't stand up on my account. -- Bob Hope
Stand up and finish what you started -- Bob Harper
Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice. -- Shawn Johnson
There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic. -- Dave Chappelle
Stand up, Chuck, let them see you. -- Joe Biden
Richard Pryor is my favorite stand-up ever. -- Norm MacDonald
I've never been able to write for stand-up. -- Elayne Boosler
The one who doesn't fall, doesn't stand up. -- Fedor Emelianenko
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. -- H. G. Wells
I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. -- John DiMaggio
It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'. -- Harper Lee
Will the real Slim Shady, please stand up?! -- Tito Sotto
He slides into second with a stand-up double. -- Jerry Coleman
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Stand-up is mine. It's a part of me. -- Tracy Morgan
I've got to stand up for the sport. -- Shaun White
Stand up for what you know is right. -- Ronald Isley
Stand up and walk out of your history -- Phil McGraw
My goal is to forever do stand up. -- Tone Bell
Will the real Red Reaper please stand up? -- Jeaniene Frost
If you see a bully, stand up to him. -- Hillary Clinton
Life's too short. If you're passionate - stand up. -- Richard Branson
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. -- Steve Buscemi
I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous. -- Aisha Tyler
She [Hillary Clinton] had the courage to stand up. -- Jennifer Palmieri
Ive been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old. -- Hal Sparks
Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny. -- Doug Stanhope
Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art. -- Louis C. K.
Stand up for your values, be courageous and humble -- Tariq Ramadan
When I found stand-up, it was like finding home. -- Bobby Lee
If you're a stand-up, you're more or less yourself. -- Jon Glaser
I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom. -- David Spade
The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me. -- Charlie Day
When I started in Canada, I just did stand-up. -- Norm MacDonald
One who does not fall, does not stand up. -- Fedor Emelianenko
It made our hair stand up in panic fear. -- Sophocles
I stand up for the things I believe in. -- Todd Akin
Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness. -- Sunday Adelaja
Stand up and take your dissonance like a man. -- Charles Ives
He slides into second with a stand up double. -- Jerry Coleman
You canâ??t stand up in a Cadillac, either. -- Bill Lear
Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up. -- William Shatner
Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage. -- Mario Cantone
When millions of people stand up and fight...they win. -- Bernie Sanders
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors. -- Dave Foley
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor. -- Kevin Nealon
I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background. -- Jenna Fischer
I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. -- Bill Burr
I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin. -- Steve Buscemi
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant. -- Johnny Weissmuller
There are things you stand up for because it's right. -- Nikki Giovanni
When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show. -- Chris Rock
I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up. -- Rachel Zucker
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny. -- Maynard James Keenan
Anybody that'll stand up to The Cline is all right. -- Patsy Cline
Don't give up the fight,Stand up for your rights. -- Bob Marley
A lot of people my age think stand up sucks. -- Aziz Ansari
The first time I did stand-up was on a dare. -- Judy Gold
I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic. -- Eugene Levy
If you stand up for women, then don't bash me. -- Olivia Munn
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. -- Carine Roitfeld
Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me. -- Bernie Mac
Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you. -- Reynolds Price
If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter. -- Rachel Roy
My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric. -- Paul Rudd
It's important to stand up for what you believe in. -- Cody Linley
Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it. -- Suzy Kassem
People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong. -- Pat Buchanan
I'm so in love with you I can't stand up. -- Kim Addonizio
I usually have sex to my stand-up comedy album. Power move. -- Jeff Ross
I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband. -- Phyllis Diller
I will stand up for families against powerful interests, against corporations. -- Hillary Clinton
Stand-up is great because I can get everything off my chest. -- Bill Maher
I think stand-up's, the older they get, the better they get. -- Jay Mohr
The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience. -- Howie Mandel
A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material. -- Kevin Nealon
I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up. -- Johnny Vegas
I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up. -- Jo Brand
No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association. -- Johnny Weissmuller
For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy. -- Kevin Hart

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