Dane Cook Quotes

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

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• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Facts
  • Been
  • Which

• One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • Deep
  • Story

• I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Technology
  • Crime

• Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

  

  Imelda May
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Age

• I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Anything
  • Would
  • Watch

• I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Guy

• I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • History
  • Know

• I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Weird
  • Beach

• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • World
  • Alone
  • Rest

• Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Law

• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Thought
  • Skepticism

• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Girl

• Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.

  

  Joel Coen
  • People
  • Different
  • Character

• Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Gift

• 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
  • Why
  • Comedy
  • Loved