Dane Cook

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.

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

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.

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

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or reconstructing my website or whatever it may be. I just love putting creativity into a performance, so if the right script comes along, and I certainly am reading comedies and dramas now, then I'm ready willing and able to give it a shot.

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

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

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

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.