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