Denis Leary Quotes

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Denis Leary

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 18, 1957

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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When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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

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I don't want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy.

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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.

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

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I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

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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.'

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I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

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If you're over 52 years old and you're on Facebook, do us all a favor and log off now.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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