Daniel Tosh Quotes

I always thought I was a good person, a decent person. I never harassed anyone or touched anyone. And you say to yourself, 'Oh, that's good enough,' but yes, I had certain jokes that I always assumed the audience would understand. This is Persona.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at anybody else.

Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.

If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

I don't have a moral plan, I'm a Canadian.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves.

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.