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" I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids. "
Denis Leary
Fan
See
Kids
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" Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time. "
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" 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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" 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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" I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought, 'If these guys can do it, then so can I.' "
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School
Me
Great
" 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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Know
Me
" 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 love America. "
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America
I Love
Love
" In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work. "
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Challenge
Work
" I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things. "
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Views
Conservative
Lot
" 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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Think
Mean
" I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy. "
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Guy
Batman
Spider-Man
" Firefighters don't go on strike. "
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Strike
Firefighters
Go
" I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with. "
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People
Place
Live
" Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring. "
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Boring
Over
Same
" I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. "
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Share
Will
Refuse
" My brother and I tortured my mother growing up. "
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Mother
Up
Brother
" 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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Focus
Hope
Hurt
" My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave. "
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Goal
Carbon
Leave
" 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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Decade
Age
Ice
" 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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Born
Sky
Yellow
" No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about. "
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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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Lot
" 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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Time
Daughter
" 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
" 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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Done
You
Love
" Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost. "
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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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Authority
Find
Why
" 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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People
Work
" What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny. "
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Politically Correct
Correct