Ray Romano Quotes

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Ray Romano

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 21, 1957

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

Ray Romano

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

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

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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.

Ray Romano

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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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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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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My favorite band - and Bobby Cannavale and Terry Winter have already made fun of me for this - is Chicago.

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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 do what I do because I love it.

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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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I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. I shoot 90 to a hundred or, once in a while, 85.

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I was wracked with insecurity.

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

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

Ray Romano