Dane Cook

“I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.”

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

“My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'”

“We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.”

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

“Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.”

“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.”

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

“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 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.”

“Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.”

“When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.”

“I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.”

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.”

“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.”