Denis Leary

Actor

1957-08-18

Quotes by Denis Leary

• I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

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• I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it.

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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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• My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

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

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• I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids.

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• I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.

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• Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

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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 know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.

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• My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.

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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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• 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.

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• I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

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• Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.

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