Dane Cook

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. ”

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'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. ”

I had the humble beginnings. 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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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