Quotes & Jokes by Dane Cook / page 15
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.
Life is too short to waste your time, energy and love on a fucking asshole.
I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
I’m making a porno film today. Well, kinda. There’s no sex or people in it. It’s mainly time lapse video of landscapes eroding over time.
Don't let's someone walk all over you unless you're into that kind of thing.
Here’s another way to be remembered, and this one, this is more personal. It’s more for you because nobody is ever going to know that it was you, but you’ll know, and that’s all that matters. Next time you go to a party, a great big party, go into the room where all the coats are: Shit on the coats. Guaranteed, at some point somebody’s gonna walk out of that room and go, "Someone shit on the coats!"
It was a personal achievement of mine to get on David Letterman. When I got there, I knew things were really happening for me.
When you and your friends are just hanging out, you don't consider your buddies to have one specific style of comedy, you just like to shoot the shit, and whatever is funny works. And that's my mentality on stage. I don't care to be like "I'm the performer. Sit, listen, and laugh." I want it to feel like we're all just hanging out. And that's how I tell my stories.
In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.
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.
It's hard dealing with day to day disappointments and feeling like you can't find success. Especially when your best friend is Pixar.
Every joke has its origin - the punching people in the face joke. It hurts like hell to get punched in the face.