Top 130 Quotes & Sayings by Ray Romano

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Last updated on November 3, 2024.

Raymond Albert Romano is an American stand-up comedian, actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Ray Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, for which he received an Emmy Award, and as the voice of Manny in the Ice Age film series. He created and starred in the TNT comedy drama Men of a Certain Age (2009–2011). From 2012 to 2015, Romano had a recurring role as Hank Rizzoli, a love interest of Sarah Braverman in the NBC series Parenthood. More recently, he co-starred in the romantic comedy The Big Sick (2017) and portrayed mob lawyer Bill Bufalino in Martin Scorsese's epic crime film The Irishman (2019). Since 2017, Romano has portrayed Rick Moreweather in the Epix comedy-drama series Get Shorty.

American - Actor | Born: December 21, 1957

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I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.

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I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

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If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.

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If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.

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I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.

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If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

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I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

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People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.

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I still got my hair, I'm not fat.

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Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.

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When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

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I was wracked with insecurity.

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I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

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You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.

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After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

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I love standup and I haven't given it up.

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I'm a little different from the average dude because I'm on high-def TV now.

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The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

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I realized I need to work. I need to be creative. As much as I have angst and anxiety, when I'm idle, it's even more. I have to keep moving. Otherwise, I catch up with myself.

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I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

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I'm from New York.

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I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I can cry at a - this is a running joke in my house, but... a good 'Star-Spangled Banner' can make me cry. I'm not kidding.

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Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

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I don't watch 'Mad Men.'

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It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

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I go to Hooters for lunch every day. Then for coffee.

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I have this mistress: show business.

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My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

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I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.

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I didn't want to have to follow 'Everybody Loves Raymond' with another sitcom. Let it be my sitcom legacy, and leave it at that.

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It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

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Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

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I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.

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I still do standup.

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I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

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My career has been my craziest adventure.

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In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.

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I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.

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The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

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I lived at home till I was 29.

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I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

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I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.

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My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

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I do what I do because I love it.

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I have some classes in accounting, but I don't know anything about accounting. I - you know, when my accountant tells me all the things he does, it's a foreign language to me.

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I remember I did the movie 'Eulogy,' and there was a dramatic moment in it. It was pretty heavy, and I went for it. It was... I didn't feel that comfortable doing it.

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Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.

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I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

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I don't get sick.

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You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

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I do still get intimidated by certain things.

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I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

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The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.

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I live in L.A. Now.

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I want to do well and I want to fit in.

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Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

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The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

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You know, a TV show is a slow build.

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I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.

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The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

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Top 130 Quotes & Sayings by Ray Romano

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