Denis Leary Quotes

I don't believe in the power of words.

There's no way around it - drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

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.'

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.

If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

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.

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

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.

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

When I become president, all you assholes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down!

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

I actually like talking.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

I'm really good at laundry, and I have no problem cleaning the kitchen.

Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

Don't buy the toys that make the noise!

Racism isn't born, folks. It's taught. I have a 2-year-old son. Know what he hates? Naps. End of list.

Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids.

I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

If you had no enemies, you had no fun.

I'm the Lord of the Dance! F-k Michael Flatley, it's me!

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup - that's it.

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.'

We drink and we die and continue to drink.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

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.'

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years.

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.

Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.

It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

There's nothing wrong with an actor that can't improvise, but if you're going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people that can play the game.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

The filter's the best part. That's where they put the heroin.

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.

I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.

I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'

I've always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots - I'm pretty good with either one.

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.

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.

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

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.

The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

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.

I would never do crack ... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.

I think all priests should be married.

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.

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

Firefighters don't go on strike.

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

Sin is in, and so we begin ...

Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.