I didn't want to perform comedy. I always loved humor. Loved making people laugh. I was a big stand up fan, but it wasn't until I was managing a restaurant that had a comedy night and one of the producers asked me to go on stage that I wanted to do it.

Andrew Schulz

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I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.

Abby Johnson

Women Men You

My greatest love is my children, and they have inspired me to fight and stand up for the right things.

Abi Morgan

Love Great Up

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

Abraham Pais

Would Who Where

We've gotta stand up against hate. If you're able to give money, give to Black Lives Matter. If you're able to protest, protest. If you're able to volunteer, volunteer.

Ad-Rock

Money You Volunteer

My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.

Adam Driver

Pet Change Year

You know obviously my stand on racism is that it's unacceptable and that we should always stand up to it.

Adam Goodes

You Ways Way

I think any time people are recognised for standing up for what they believe in and the way that they do it is a step forward, because if we don't stand up for what we believe in and we let people get away with not educating them for things that they have said they're going to think that behaviour is acceptable.

Adam Goodes

War Time Wit

Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.

Adam McKay

Up Two Tan

I think it's so important for somebody like me to stand up for the things I believe in and speak up on things I don't think are right.

Adam Rippon

Up Think Things

Given this platform of being an Olympic athlete, I think it's really important that we stand up for what we believe in, and we speak out against things that we think are wrong and injust.

Adam Rippon

Wrong Us Up

My mom always taught me to stand up for what I believe in.

Adam Rippon

Mom Ways Way

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

Adam Rippon

Mom Who Ways

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.

Aisha Tyler

Art Writing Where

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

Al Franken

Teacher You Who

I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.

Alan Dershowitz

Men Government Which

Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material.

Alan Ladd

Weak Up UN

Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.

Alex Berenson

Business Would Value

To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.

Alex Morgan

Time Change Your

I am the type of person who relishes the chance to stand up and perform under pressure; I have had to do that my whole career.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Chance Car Whole

I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for 'On Harvard Time,' which was a student TV show trying to be 'The Daily Show.' And I wrote a humor column for 'The Crimson' starting my sophomore year.

Alexandra Petri

The most valuable thing my dad taught me was to never care about what other people thought. When he came to my shows, and I'd announce his presence, he'd stand up with his hands clasped in victory and cheer my name.

Ali Wong

So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.

Allen West

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

Allyson Schwartz

I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.

Amber Riley

I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about.

America Ferrera

I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.

Amy Jackson

Canada has the world's largest Ukrainian population outside of Ukraine and Russia. As a senator from Minnesota, a state with a large Ukrainian-American community, I understand how important it is that Canada works with us to stand up to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Amy Klobuchar

The real reason President Trump was elected, I think, to the extent I know anything about politics at all - and I know very, very little - is that a lot of people really were relieved to see someone stand up to the thought police of the progressive left wing.

Amy Wax

If you can't be president - if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.

Ana Navarro

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

It is important to stand up to bullies.

Ananya Panday

For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.

Andrea Bocelli

For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.

Andrew Breitbart

It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Andrew Pyper

I didn't want to perform comedy. I always loved humor. Loved making people laugh. I was a big stand up fan, but it wasn't until I was managing a restaurant that had a comedy night and one of the producers asked me to go on stage that I wanted to do it.

Andrew Schulz

It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.

Andy Biersack

Sometimes you want to skate along or just get by or fly under the radar, but sometimes you have to stand up and let your voice be heard and give it your best and give it your all. As a mother of young children, that's something I've tried to emphasize and highlight for them.

Angela Bassett

I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

Angie Harmon

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

Ann Dowd

I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.

Anna Akana

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

Anne Campbell

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

Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?

Anne Stevenson

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

Anthony Mackie

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.

Antonio Davis

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

Arancha Gonzalez

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

Aries Spears

I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.

Armando Iannucci