Denis Leary quotes

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Christian #Men #Thinking

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Ideas #Band #Dysfunctional Family

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
-- Denis Leary

#Powerful #Hate #Son

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.
-- Denis Leary

#Awards #Rocks #Mtv

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

#Mom #Talking #Class

One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but he couldn't make a living that way so he had to support his family as an auto mechanic which he also loved doing. He was also such a great dad because when I first told him I thought I wanted to go into show business, his response was okay, that's interesting.
-- Denis Leary

#Dad #America #Interesting

All men hear is blah, blah, blah, blah, SEX, blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah, BEER.
-- Denis Leary

#Sex #Beer #Men

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater.
-- Denis Leary

#Stars #Character #Actors

Everyone should have an evil secret plan...
-- Denis Leary

#Funny #Evil #Secret

My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it.
-- Denis Leary

#Thinking #Wife #Poor

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Writing #Actors #Television

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.
-- Denis Leary

#People #Wake Up #Want

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

#Fun

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Thinking #Fans #Genius

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
-- Denis Leary

#Decision #Meat #Engagement

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.
-- Denis Leary

#Looks #Television #Way

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

#Hate #Color #Skins

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

#House #Machines #Maids

Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino...Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup.
-- Denis Leary

#Country #Coffee #Missing

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.'
-- Denis Leary

#Cancer #World #Cures

What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'
-- Denis Leary

#Military #People #Firefighter

Life Sucks,get a helmet
-- Denis Leary

#Life Sucks #Helmet

I can't text. My fingers are too big.
-- Denis Leary

#Bigs #Fingers

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

#Jesus #Thinking #Years

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.
-- Denis Leary

#Media #Example #Social Media

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

#Cousin #Firefighter #Guy

In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.
-- Denis Leary

#Years #People #Challenges

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

#Father #Gentleman #Way

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Horse #New York #Father

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.
-- Denis Leary

#Country #Firefighter #Support

I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy.
-- Denis Leary

#Men #Guy #Fans

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

#Goal #Footprint #Carbon

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
-- Denis Leary

#Mother #Brother #Growing Up

If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.
-- Denis Leary

#Sorry #Rights #Government

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

#Regret #Denver #Mouths

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Running #Character #Thinking

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

#Fire #America #People

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Baseball #Independent #Hollywood

Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
-- Denis Leary

#Hate #Yankees #Let Me

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

#Kissing #Bye #Family And Friends

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Technology #Worry #Village

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

#Animal #Wife #Matter

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Sky #Yellow #Parent

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
-- Denis Leary

#Boston #People #Clubs

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Believe #Skeletons #Envelopes

First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.
-- Denis Leary

#Horse #Moving #Two

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

#Song #Believe #Play

Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'
-- Denis Leary

#Character #Ideas #Actors

Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.
-- Denis Leary

#Real #Grief #Firefighter

Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.
-- Denis Leary

#Easter #Moving #Thinking

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Tattoo #Military #People

You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.
-- Denis Leary

#Political #Trying #Want

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.
-- Denis Leary

#Ireland

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
-- Denis Leary

#Fiction #Science Fiction #Interest

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Dog #Love You #Long

The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.
-- Denis Leary

#Hands #Tvs #Film

There's no male Oprah.
-- Denis Leary

#Males

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.
-- Denis Leary

#Drama #Way #Heavy

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.
-- Denis Leary

#Chance #Rescue #Rescue Me

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.
-- Denis Leary

#Stage

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

#Basketball #Grew Up #Used

I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.
-- Denis Leary

#Fall #Son #Years

I have good kids, I love my kids. I try to bring them up the right way, not spanking them. I find that I don't have to spank them. I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done!
-- Denis Leary

#Jobs #Kids #Gun

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.
-- Denis Leary

#Laughing #Make Me Laugh

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

#Writing #Long #Acting

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

#Kids #Problem #Authority