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" Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house. "
Denis Leary
Love
Great
House
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" I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album. "
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" I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie. "
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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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" What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny. "
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Politically Correct
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" Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America. "
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" I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory. "
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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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" 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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Free
Comedy
" 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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" I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right? "
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" 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
" Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person. "
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Actually
Person
Same
" I actually like talking. "
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Actually
Like
Talking
" I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos. "
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You
Military
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" I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff. "
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American
Stuff
Any
" I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy. "
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Good Guy
Good
Guy
" 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 love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area. "
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Friends
Like
Lot
" I love America. "
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America
I Love
Love
" 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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Time
Happy
Moment
" Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter. "
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" 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
" Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland. "
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Ireland
Off
Helped
" Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. "
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Scenery
Sometimes
" Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate. "
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" Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. "
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Instinct
Decision
Eating
" My brother and I tortured my mother growing up. "
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Brother
" I don't believe in the power of words. "
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Power
Words
" 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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Sexy
Great