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Well I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down — Tom Petty

I had a massive amount of self-belief when I did stand-up. — Johnny Vegas

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out. — Brion James

I needed to wake up, stand up, and fight. — Chrissy Moon

If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost! — Earl Hines

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. — Jenny Eclair

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up. — Martin Freeman

I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes. — Etty Hillesum

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

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives. — Natasha Leggero

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

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous. — Aisha Tyler

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up. — Anthony Jeselnik

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers. — Kathleen Sebelius

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture. — Michael Ian Black

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life. — Tracy Morgan

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone. — Andrew Dice Clay

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up — William Faulkner

I am crushing so hard on Amy Schumer. Women like her who have chosen to stand up for themselves and face the bullies are being so embraced. — Anne Hathaway

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence. — Rita Rudner

I live in California, so I do stand-up paddle board, which is a killer workout. I also run, about four miles every three days. — Ashley Wagner

I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That's the truth. I actually think he's very funny. I've paid to see him do his stand-up routine. — Megyn Kelly

But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in. — Anne Perry

I did a show called 'What A Country,' with Yakov Smirnoff and Don Knotts. I used to write jokes for Yakov's stand-up act. — Mike Scully

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me. — Dean Norris

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. — Josh McDermitt

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. — Mitt Romney

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from. — Aisha Tyler

Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am. — T. J. Miller

I stand up to people. — Keith Olbermann

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up. — Louis C.K.

I wouldn't like to find out my GP was messing about with black magic. It would be like discovering that your bank manager was also a stand-up comic. — Christopher Fowler

I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show. — Louis C.K.

I will never let you fall
I'll stand up with you forever
I'll be there for you through it all
Even if saving you sends me to heaven — Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?' — Heather Graham

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. — Tina Turner

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here. — Alan Rickman

I'm proud to say that I've never had a normal job. I started doing stand-up when I was in high school, purely as a measure to never get a proper job. — Seth Rogen

When you're exonerated, then the people who wrongly accused you should have the guts to stand up and say, "I'm sorry." — Chris Christie

I am me. I have to define myself. I'm going to stand up at the back of the train and take control of my future. — Kelly Masterson

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is. — Johnny Vegas

If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor, you can't go - I guess there's forms of it. — Louis C.K.

There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that. — Steve Martin

I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes. — Questlove

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in. — Tracy Chapman

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. — Tim Allen

Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only my sword the truth is i ran. — Rick Riordan

I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard. — W. Kamau Bell

My hair takes a while to get right, I use wax to get it to stand up. — Alex Parks

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor. — Patrick Huard

I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to. — Nick Kroll

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war. — Chief Joseph

I think it's important to protect people. To stand up for people [ ... ] That's what courage is. Not ... hurting people for no reason. - Al — Veronica Roth

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan. — Steve Harvey

I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility. — Alex Sink

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show. — Chris Rock

When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class. — J. B. Smoove

I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I won't want to do that. But, who knows? — Amy Schumer

I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it — Justin Bieber

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles. — Analeigh Tipton

Anger surges in me and I stand up. "You have no right -"
He's on his feet towering over me. "What if I want to have a right? — Lisa Renee Jones

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. — Janine Turner

I respect only those who stand up to me, but I find such people intolerable. — Jonathan Fenby

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in. — Colin Quinn

I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage. — T. J. Miller

I've never been able to stand up for myself while growing up, but I will stand up for you against anyone who ever threatens to hurt you in any way. — Daniele Lanzarotta

I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in - and I do. — Leona Lewis

I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am. — Daniel Tosh

I like your mother. you have your mother's breasts."
"her breasts."
"great stand-up tits." he said — Don DeLillo

For me, the goal wasn't to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new. — Nick Kroll

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor. — Kevin Nealon

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like. — Eminem

I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch. — Bo Burnham

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though. — Jack Whitehall

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business. — Chris D'Elia

Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself. — Patton Oswalt

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. — Elizabeth Peters

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up. — Bram Stoker

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical. — Mike Birbiglia

To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time ... To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer. — Richard Patrick

Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting. — Colin Quinn

I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes. — Felipe Esparza

I've got to stand up for the sport. — Shaun White

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life. — Judy Gold

I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week. — Jeff Garlin

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics. — Chris Hardwick

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously. — Bill Burr

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh. — Bob Uecker

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 enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing. — Wanda Sykes

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove. — J. B. Smoove

If I can sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children. — Rosa Parks

Now, I think the people who are still doing stand-up are doing it because they love stand-up. — Wanda Sykes

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska. — Deb Fischer

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. — Jim Carrey

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. — Dana Carvey

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it. — Margaret Thatcher

Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes. — Aziz Ansari

So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in. — Howard Dean