Dane Cook Quotes

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Always keep your anger bottled up. You might need a bottle of anger some day when friends come by and won't leave.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

I don't like to yell and scream. I actually hate it.

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

We don't get the greatest tools to deal with anger. It's like, 'Hey, count to 10.' When someone really upsets me, how do I respond? I don't usually start counting to 10 and breathing deeply.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.

When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

I'm too mature to be angry.

I really do believe when you're in a ton of pain, you tend to take it out on other people. If you deal with your stuff, you don't take it out on everybody else.

If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.

I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

Get into the habit of always speaking calmly to everyone. This will prevent you from anger, a serious character flaw…

Only when emotion is involved do you get angry and lose your temper. You could have different points of view, but as long as it is constructive dissent, it is fun.