Denis Leary Quotes

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I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice

I think we’re going to carry the ‘Ice Age‘s up to ‘Ice Age 15,’ which means basically they’ll be in the present decade.
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What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, ‘I’m going to protect all these strangers.’
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If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, ‘The Ref’ is my favorite Christmas movie.’
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Temptation‘s something you have to deal with even if you’re not famous. It’s harder when you’re famous because it’s a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.
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When I’m on stage, that’s me. It’s blown up, but that’s me.
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My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
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If you had no enemies, you had no fun.
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I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.
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There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn’t get laid.
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I think all priests should be married.
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I’m born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.
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My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
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Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.
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Everyone’s got skeletons in their closet, and I’ve got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.
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I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.
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I’m pretty much a chocolate guy. I’m up for any type of chocolate. Any chocolate.
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I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, ‘I’m going to be a hockey player.’
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I really like ‘Batman.’ Not the TV show, but the dark ‘Batman.’
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I’m not really a Spider-Man fan. I’m more of a Batman guy.
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Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.
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With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you’ll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.
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George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.
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If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I’ve been out of work for a while.
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I want you to take away the hope because that’s the thing that’s killing me.
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I’m really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen.
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I know gay – gay people who aren’t married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
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I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it’s about yourself, or whether it’s about something else. It’s my worldview; it doesn’t mean that everybody has to agree with it.
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If you’re over 52 years old and you’re on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.
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If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you’re out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
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I’m not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely – it’s like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?
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Firefighters don’t go on strike.
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I’m still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.
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I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I’m ok with that because I’ve been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.
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I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time.
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Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.
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Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don’t think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.
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Here’s the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.
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No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
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If I’m president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn’t be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights – I’m sorry, I’m pulling you right off the street, and we’re giving you clothes that you’re going to be O.K. in.
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My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
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The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I’m not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.
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Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.
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I don’t want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy.
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I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I’ve pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it’s not identifying, I think it’s more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody’s got to have an angle; that’s the way I grew up.
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I really, really like ‘Eastbound & Down.’ It’s one of the few things that makes me laugh.
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I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.
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Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
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There’s not going to be a ‘Rescue Me’ movie. Not a chance.
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My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, ‘FX makes the show that I see on my computer.’ So it’s harder to get a show on the air, but at the same time, there are a lot of terrific shows.
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I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.
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There’s no way around it – drama is very difficult to shoot. It’s very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.
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I’ve eaten things that didn’t complain this much.
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I’ve been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I’ve never won one and I probably never will.
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I don’t watch ‘American Idol.’ I don’t watch any of that stuff.
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I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.
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It says on the back of the Nyquil box, ‘May cause drowsiness.’ It should say, ‘Don’t make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.’
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Most people don’t know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.
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Anthony Mackie in ‘The Hurt Locker‘ is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.
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Certain movies like ‘Wag The Dog,’ we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we’d have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.
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I’m a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.
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I remember 9/11; we had ‘Comics Come Home‘ about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.
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Kathy Bates is sexy. It’s partly because of her talent, but she‘s got a great face, and a great laugh.
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I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
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I basically – I don’t like tattoos, unless you’re a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That’s – those are people who should have tattoos.
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I’ve always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots – I’m pretty good with either one.
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I really, really like ‘Eastbound & Down.’ It’s one of the few things that makes me laugh. It’s almost too funny to get an award.
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I actually like talking.
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My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don’t think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.
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One thing that’s great about firefighters: If they don’t have the equipment they desperately need, they don’t have the help, they don’t care. They’ll do it on their own.
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My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
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Anybody who’s done standup will tell you that there’s nothing like it. The show starts at 8:00, the curtain goes up and there’s nobody else except you and the audience, and you just perform for them for two hours. Nobody yells, ‘Cut!’ There are no retakes. That is still the most exciting medium for me, and I love it.
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I’m a huge Kevin Youkilis fan.
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Bill Murray doesn’t do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he’s going to do.
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I went to see the ‘Spider-Man‘ movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids.
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I’d love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I’d also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won’t let me do it.
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My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
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My biggest regret in life is that I didn’t hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
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