Quotes About Expression

There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think but I'm not brave enough to say,' and that's not particularly true.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

See, 'Bad and Boujee' was really a ladies' record. It made all of them want to stand up a little more and feel a little better about themselves.

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

There's a big difference to when you stand up and sing someone else's song, but when you've actually written the song, you feel like you were a part of it, and you're a lot more proud of it.

I want to stand up for free speech.

When you are doing stand up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X-Men version of yourself, with lasers coming out of your eyes.

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos are nothing to do with it.

You should never hold back in giving your opinion - it's important to always stand up for what you believe in and not just agree with those around you.

I've been a homosexual all my life. My partner and I don't want to stand up and say we're gay, because we think that's wrong.

We live in a world with men wanting to be brave. Not many will stand up and say, 'I don't feel right here.'

If I can encourage people to stand up and take space and make noise, then I'm very happy to do so.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

Regardless of what I do, whether I write a book or whether I act or whether I host, I'll always do stand-up comedy because those moments, that's what I crave. If I do something funny, and I hear a crowd laugh in that moment, we're all sharing the exact same experience and the exact same feeling.

Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.

I'm actually into the idea of doing stand-up comedy, as a joke. You know how people do karaoke for fun? Well it would sort of be like that.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.