Ray Romano Quotes

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Ray Romano

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 21, 1957

If I had never gotten famous or rich, I think I'd be equally neurotic.

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I like a good cry - it's cathartic; it's a release. But I've never been able to be so free to do that on camera the way some actors can.

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I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.

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When I started out, Jay Leno used to say you're not as good as you think you can be until at least your sixth year. I was like, what the hell is he talking about? 'Cause I was in my third year, and I thought, 'I got this.' I kept videos of myself performing, and in my fifth year I watched my third year and realized he couldn't have been more right.

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As successful as it may appear I am, I don't really feel that. It's like, you know you've achieved some level of success, and you know what you've done, and yet you still feel you have more to do and more to prove.

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Every backstory involves my father. I remember hearing Gary Oldman talking about backstories and saying, 'I got to stop using my father...' And I feel the same way. I don't know. What I come up with always involves some element of this son trying to prove himself to his father.

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You're only as good as your last joke, your last show, your last whatever. The confidence is there, but underneath, there is always insecurity.

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I see the bad in everything I do.

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In stand-up, there's that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it's not a rule.

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Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me. She never stopped. Whether working professionally or with her many charities or just nurturing and mentoring a green young comic trying to make it as an actor, she did everything with such a grand love for life and people, and I will miss her dearly.

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My joke used to be about my father and Peter Boyle: that anything you see Peter Boyle do on TV, my father has done in real life without pants on.

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My hair was long - in my high school year book, I looked like an ugly David Cassidy.

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I just go to work, come home. And my wife lets me throw my clothes on the floor, and she doesn't say anything, so I must be making some money.

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

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When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.

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Anna would be just as happy with me if I were a plumber. As a matter of fact, when she married me, I was working at a bank and living at home. I didn't move out until I was 29!

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I don't watch 'Mad Men.'

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