Quotes By Dane Cook

Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.

I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

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 like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

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.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

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.

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.

I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

I'm always going to be someone that people enjoy watching.

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

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.

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

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.