Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life. "
Denis Leary
Life
My Life
Up
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Air
See
Watch
" Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. "
Denis Leary
Used
Basketball
Up
" If you had no enemies, you had no fun. "
Denis Leary
You
Had
Fun
" Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself. "
Denis Leary
Nobody
Than
Fun
" I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television. "
Denis Leary
Process
Love
You
" Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. 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.' "
Denis Leary
See
Numbers
Technology
" I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy. "
Denis Leary
Guy
Batman
Spider-Man
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Day
Challenge
Work
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Audience
Laugh
Night
" When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.' "
Denis Leary
Doing
Always
Back
" There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.' "
Denis Leary
Say
Play
Know
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Son
Black
Year
" 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. "
Denis Leary
People
Building
Homeless
" My brother and I tortured my mother growing up. "
Denis Leary
Mother
Up
Brother
" I don't want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy. "
Denis Leary
Okay
President
Smart
" 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
" You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't. "
Denis Leary
Funny
Either
How
" How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean. "
Denis Leary
Whales
Figure
Five
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Hockey
Game
Great
" I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God. "
Denis Leary
Raise
Fear
God
" I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things. "
Denis Leary
Views
Conservative
Lot
" There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. "
Denis Leary
Clothes
Wearing
Middle
" My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. "
Denis Leary
English
Swear
Father
" I think all priests should be married. "
Denis Leary
Should
Married
Priests
" Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish. "
Denis Leary
Money
Funny
Important
" 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.' "
Denis Leary
Me
People
Work
" The thing with movies is, because you have so little time, I always feel like there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart. "
Denis Leary
Think
Character
Movies
" Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true. "
Denis Leary
Every
Thinks
True
" I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. "
Denis Leary
Share
Will
Refuse
" I've eaten things that didn't complain this much. "
Denis Leary
Things
Much
Eaten