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I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't ... ELLEN BARKIN
I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess ... TOM FORD
Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't jus... BILL BURR One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian...
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's... TEA LEONI Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
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Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow m... MARINA ABRAMOVIC
When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were suppose... LIL REL HOWERY
If you can do it, why you won't do it???If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the '70s. I'm glad they cle... JOHN WATERS I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private ...
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you s... PATRICK ROTHFUSS
I'm kind of crazy with karma. I really believe that everything you do revisits you, so, I'm ... JOEL MADDEN
Bravery breaks barriers! You were not born to be mediocre! Put on courage and conquer! Don’t forge... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in... IDINA MENZEL My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.
BERNIE MAC
If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. VAN MORRISON
If you think you can do it, you can. JOHN BURROUGHS
It ain't bragging if you can do it. DIZZY DEAN
My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally o... TREY PARKER I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do i...
DANE COOK I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will b...
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ADRIAN GRENIER My studio's always in my house. I want to wake up and be like, 'You know I'm gonna make ...
BENNY BLANCO I like comedy a lot, and dramatics show how I can really act. Because a lot of people can do comedy ...
CAYDEN BOYD I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. &#...
ALESSANDRA TORRESANI At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeli...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON
Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a l...
DAVID STEINBERG I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive...
CAMREN BICONDOVA I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't re...
BONNIE LANGFORD I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime no...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel lik... TONY HAWK Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself...
PHILIPP MEYER
If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN Hmm... my bedroom's really messy. It's probably the messiest bedroom you could ever think of...
PIXIE LOTT I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of ki...
ANTHONY PETTIS All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like,...
TAISSA FARMIGA
I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as ... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY
Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it... ROBERT REDFORD
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to ... ADAM DEVINE
I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. ... DONALD TRUMP
You can be all that you want to be.Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me t... RICK PERRY If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.
BARBARA DELINSKY I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is ...
ELIAS KOTEAS I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like the...
COREY HAIM I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are...
DANE COOK I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of roman...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD
I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dan... LARRY KING
I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I... MINNIE DRIVER It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy....
RACHAEL HARRIS Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as lon...
BENITA VALENTE With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of th...
MARTHA KELLY
Be all that you can be.You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI
People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't ... IGGY AZALEA Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and...
COLIN HANKS I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d...
DAVE ATTELL
I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing ... DYLAN MORAN Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
BEN SHAHN
Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experien... DIANE KEATON
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC
I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like... EMMITT SMITH I'm not a comedian, I'm not a stand-up and I don't come from a comedy background. I am a...
DARREN BOYD I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. I...
MARK GATISS I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest,...
KATIE LOWES
I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is w... MAGGIE SMITH
I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've b... MARA WILSON When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don&...
CHELSEA PERETTI You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can d...
ROBERT KARL HANSON
Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as som... HALSEY
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear does... DALE CARNEGIE
What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that... ROBERT RODRIGUEZ Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa...
PHILIP T. M. I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel ...
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If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven... DAVID SEDARIS
Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
When you're in comedy, people always come up and say, 'Oh, it must be so hard.' It reall... JERRY SEINFELD I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.
BRIAN HIGGINS I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I...
PADDY CONSIDINE I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where...
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Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York ...
MARCIA STRASSMAN
Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do ... KEVIN HART
Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it the... ROBERT REDFORD
Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you ... RANDEEP HOODA
Learn, relearn and outlearn. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you p... FRANK IERO I was watching 'The September Issue' in the back of a theater in New York, and I thought, &#...
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In the '90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you've got people like Hannibal... ANDY KINDLER
I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you a... BILL WATTERSON
