Dane Cook Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• Every time you come in from cheating on someone, they'll just whip out the most adorable term of endearment. Like, they'll wake up, bright and early, sleep in their eyes and say: "Hey, perfect."

  Dane Cook

  Funny, Cheating, Sleep

• 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.

  Dane Cook

  Gorillas, Littles, Comedy

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

  Dane Cook

  Home, School, Years

• 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.

  Dane Cook

  Giving, Toasters, Today

• I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

  Dane Cook

  Writing, Comedy, Spontaneity

• My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

  Dane Cook

  Comedy, Sense Of Humor, Senses

• I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'

  Dane Cook

  Funny, Snakes, Why Not

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

  Dane Cook

  Character, People, Laughing

• I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

  Dane Cook

  Different, Done, Comedy

  "Interview with comedian Dane Cook". Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. August 1, 2005.

• 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.

  Dane Cook

  Laughter, Men, Work Out

• Comedy crowds - we always want to come out and ask you, 'How you feeling?' We always say that, 'By a round of applause, how do you feel?' Right? 'By a round of applause, how you feeling?' It's the only place in the world that you judge how you're feeling by a round of applause... There's never like a car accident, people all over the ground, people running over - 'Ma'am! Ma'am! By a round of applause, how do you feel? By a round of applause - she's not clapping!

  Dane Cook

  Running, People, Judging

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

  Dane Cook

  Guitar, Play, Movie Love

• I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.

  Dane Cook

  Kids, Past, Years

  "Dane Cook Talks PLANES, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and PLANES Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

• 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.

  Dane Cook

  Energy, Firsts, Comedy

• I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

  Dane Cook

  Book, Years, Twelve

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

  Dane Cook

  People, Comedy, Enjoy

  Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. August 1, 2005.

• Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

  Dane Cook

  Hot, Comedy, Notes

• I've lived (in LA) for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't anymore.

  Dane Cook

  Real, Long, Comedy

  "Interview with comedian Dane Cook". Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. August 1, 2005.

• Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.

  Dane Cook

  Character, Imagination, Effort

  "Dane Cook Talks Comedy Special TROUBLEMAKER, Following His Plan for a Live Show, His Upcoming Indie 400 DAYS, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 17, 2014.

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

  Dane Cook

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Get Better

• 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.

  Dane Cook

  Genuine Person, Guy, Comedy

• The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.

  Dane Cook

  Directors, Actors, Pieces

  "INTERVIEW: Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

• I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

  Dane Cook

  Able, Way, Comedy

  "Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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

  Dane Cook

  Directors, Comedy, Sometimes

• After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was it prepared me for [anything]. Nothing else is as scary, and certainly stand-up comedy is not as scary as sitting there with your mom and having to have last conversations and things like that. It's heavy stuff, but it's enlightening because it makes me think I shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas and thoughts with people. It's the yin and the yang of life.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Loss, Thinking

  "Dane Cook Talks PLANES, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and PLANES Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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