Dane Cook Quotes

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Dane Cook

Profession : Comedian

Birth : March 18, 1972

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.

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I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.

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

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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.

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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.

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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.

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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.

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

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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

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I get so into the moment.

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I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

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

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I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

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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.

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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.

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Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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