Top 258 Quotes & Sayings by Denis Leary
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Last updated on September 11, 2024.
No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.
Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.
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.
If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.
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.
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.
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!
If you had no enemies, you had no fun.
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.
I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.
If you want a long-term relationship that doesn't require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there's no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day.
I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.
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.
I don't believe in the power of words.
I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.
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.
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.
There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.
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.
My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
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.
Firefighters don't go on strike.
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.
I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.
When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.
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.
I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.
I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.
Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.
You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.
Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.
Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.
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.
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?
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.
I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.
Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.
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.
I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids.
I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.
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.
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.'
I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it.
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.
What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.
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.
I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
Anybody who's done standup will tell you that there's nothing like it. The show starts at 8:00, the curtain goes up and there's nobody else except you and the audience, and you just perform for them for two hours. Nobody yells, 'Cut!' There are no retakes. That is still the most exciting medium for me, and I love it.
I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.
My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
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