Words matter. These are the best Dane Cook Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you’re on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone’s stifling their laughter. You’re looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.
I’m completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
I’m focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
I’m glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
I’m interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I’m sort of a performance rat.
When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.
I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
I’m always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.
I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I’d always say ‘Why not me?’
There’s always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.
I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people – how they act and such.
My mother had a lot of phobias. She’s pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.
I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don’t think I’m funny.
Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.
I’ve lived in LA for so long, I don’t even know what is real and what isn’t any more.
I get so into the moment.
I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.
My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.
I don’t laugh out loud at comics a lot.
When people refer to ‘Back in the Day,’ it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He’ll come to a lot of my shows. It’s not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.
I don’t have to do anything for anyone else’s benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He’s in jail now.
Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I’m not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something’s bad.
That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
If haters or whatever want to find you – I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They’re very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
I’m quitting the business today. I’m going to open up an appliance store, I’ve always really been into toasters. I’m giving it all up.
I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.
In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
My nickname for my mom was ‘The Compass.’
In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I’m a guy that has love of the game.
I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there’s truth to it – being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you’re working smaller clubs, you’re listening. You’re feeling an energy, you’re going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
I do try to keep my show very improvisational. I don’t work off a set list; I like to keep it more in the moment. I like to have information about where I’m going, what might be happening in that particular region as well. I like for people to feel like the show is for them.