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" I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy. "
Denis Leary
Guy
Batman
Spider-Man
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" Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction. "
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Job
Fat
" 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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Wife
Time
Relationships
" I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. "
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Authority
Problems
Pretty
" I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better. "
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Believe
I Believe
" 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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You
Side
Real
" 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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Know
Enough
You
" Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. "
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Basketball
Up
" My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. "
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English
Swear
Father
" When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era. "
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Think
Bad
" 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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Find
Why
" Hockey's my favorite sport. "
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Sport
Favorite
Hockey
" I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff. "
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American
Stuff
Any
" I love America. "
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America
I Love
Love
" 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.' "
Denis Leary
Rest
Strangers
Military
" 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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Charity
Family
Day
" 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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Like
Dog
Two
" I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy. "
Denis Leary
Good Guy
Good
Guy
" I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens. "
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Rest
Know
High
" I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have. "
Denis Leary
Work
Think
Music
" You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is. "
Denis Leary
Political
Try
You
" I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area. "
Denis Leary
Friends
Like
Lot
" The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal. "
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Mean
Streets
See
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Always
Moving
Problem
" Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads. "
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Speech
Free
Comedy
" I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice. "
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Day
Beach
Been
" I can't text. My fingers are too big. "
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Too
Text
Fingers
" I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side? "
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History
Say
Think
" 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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Camera
Never Forget
People
" I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me. "
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You
Because
Away
" My brother and I tortured my mother growing up. "
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Mother
Up
Brother