Stand Up Quotes
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Stand Up Quotes & Sayings
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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
Do not run from adventures. Seek them. And when you fall, always stand up again, for there is more ahead. -Femi
— Liz Schulte
it's about doing what you can, whenever you can, to stand up for what you believe. You fight and you never, ever give up. That's what makes a man.
— Craig Schaefer
Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.
— Tad Williams
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
[...] a good bra is like a good relationship. It lifts you up and helps you stand on your own, and it's right there in your drawer when you need it.
— Wendy Wax
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
— Carine Roitfeld
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
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
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
— Thomas Sowell
A commitment to never getting knocked down is in reality a decision to never stand up.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You have to stand up for some things in this world.
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.
— Judah Friedlander
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
Please don't stand up on my account.
— Bob Hope
Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.
— Melissa Peterman
A good friend is the one who stand up for you and not the one who sells you out
— Beta Metani'Marashi
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
— Carly Fiorina
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
— Janine Turner
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! — William Shakespeare
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! — William Shakespeare
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
When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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
It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.
— Jim Butcher
Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.
— Paz De La Huerta
Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.
— Kyle Schmalenberg
Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.
— Norm MacDonald
We've got to stand up not only for free speech, but also for all that we've inherited from the Enlightenment and from Christianity.
— Roger Scruton
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've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.
— Mike Birbiglia
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
Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.
— Marian Wright Edelman
Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-everything vibes.
— Aziz Ansari
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
When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.
— Sunny Leone
The Philippines just need 100 youth to stand up for their country
— F. Sionil Jose
Everything that is going to kill you is extremely appetizing.
— Doug Stanhope
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.
— James Cook
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
— Dana Carvey
Will the real Red Reaper please stand up?
— Jeaniene Frost
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
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
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
If you believe in nothing and stand up for nothing, you'll become and achieve nothing.
— Gosho Aoyama
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
It's bad to get up early, stand at your typewriter and work, then find it's nothing and take a bottle to bed.
— Ray Bradbury
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
— Archibald Alexander Hodge
When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
— Steve Largent
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
— Jack Whitehall
Sometimes we have to fall down before we can stand up.
— Liesl Shurtliff
If you plan to be an artist you need to learn how to take criticism and stand up for your work. If you don't love it, no one will.
— Jen Frederick
Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.
— Patton Oswalt
If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up. — Bill Cosby
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up. — Bill Cosby
I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
— Elizabeth Peters
The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
— Jerry Seinfeld
You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career.
— Debra L. Lee
I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
— Bram Stoker
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
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.
— Camille Paglia
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
Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed
— Reynolds Price
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
Americans, at our best, stand up to bullies and fight those who seek to demean and degrade others.
— Cory Booker
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
With dogs you just go up and smell their asses and you know where you stand. It's so much easier. Why can't humans do that?
— Kevin Hearne
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
Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
— Oprah Winfrey
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
— Geraldine Brooks
You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.
— Enzo Ferrari
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