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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. "
Denis Leary
Laugh
Sexy
Great
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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. "
Denis Leary
Like
Dog
Two
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Firefighters
Help
Need
" 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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You
Like
Work
" I'm a huge Kevin Youkilis fan. "
Denis Leary
Fan
Huge
Kevin
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Off
Better
You
" I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry. "
Denis Leary
Greedy
Self-Centered
Angry
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Funny
Think
Mean
" I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention. "
Denis Leary
Stupid
Attention
Best
" The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he's still as funny as he's ever been, and he's still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I'll still be able to work. "
Denis Leary
Angry
Funny
Work
" Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring. "
Denis Leary
Boring
Over
Same
" I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me. "
Denis Leary
You
Because
Away
" 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.' "
Denis Leary
Say
Plans
Kiss
" I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time. "
Denis Leary
Film
Time
Movie
" I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will. "
Denis Leary
Will
Been
Emmys
" I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory. "
Denis Leary
Business
Famous
People
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Believe
Know
Me
" I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time. "
Denis Leary
Love
Time
Daughter
" Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. "
Denis Leary
Great
Scenery
Sometimes
" 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
" I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids. "
Denis Leary
Fan
See
Kids
" My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave. "
Denis Leary
Goal
Carbon
Leave
" Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself. "
Denis Leary
Nobody
Than
Fun
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Time
Acting
Long
" 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
" If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while. "
Denis Leary
You
Doing
Me
" The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film. "
Denis Leary
Working
Film
Everyone
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Humor
Happy
Great
" Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland. "
Denis Leary
Ireland
Off
Helped
" I love America. "
Denis Leary
America
I Love
Love
" 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. "
Denis Leary
Rest
Know
High