The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
There are things you stand up for because it's right.
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
Stand up for what you know is right.
My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.
I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.
You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it to become a millionaire, you're doing it for the wrong reasons. In 2003, I was flat broke. I'd been doing stand-up for 14 years at that point. I loved it and just kept at it.
I truly believed that other people in my position didn't make mistakes; I couldn't see that everybody makes them, even people with great experience.