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" Hockey's my favorite sport. "
Denis Leary
Sport
Favorite
Hockey
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" I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed. "
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" I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album. "
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" What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny. "
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" Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself. "
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" It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case. "
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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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" For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that's so perfectly designed for a scene on 'Rescue Me,' we'll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is. "
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Me
" You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. "
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Nothing
" I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. "
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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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Great
" 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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You
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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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Hope
Hurt
" I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else. "
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You
Run
" 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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" I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor. "
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Humor
Happy
Great
" One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters. "
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" How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean. "
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Whales
Figure
Five
" My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building. "
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Homeless
" 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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Me
Way
" The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media. "
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Media
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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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Great
" 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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" 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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" The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them. "
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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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Middle
" I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy. "
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Guy
" Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring. "
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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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Emmys
" People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes! "
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Red
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