Denis Leary Quotes - Page 10

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• I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

  Denis Leary

  Tables And Chairs, Comedian, Brain

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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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  Horse, Moving, Two

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• The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

  Denis Leary

  People, Battle, Cameras

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

  Denis Leary

  Firefighter, Bigs, Crew

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• Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

  Denis Leary

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Interest

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

  Denis Leary

  Acting, Actors, Sugar

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• The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Atlanta, Boston

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

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  Hands, Tvs, Film

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

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  Dad, Real, Hockey

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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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  Cousin, Couple, Fire

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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• My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

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  Firefighter, Widows, Charity

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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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  Dad, Men, Ice

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• There's no male Oprah.

  Denis Leary

  Males

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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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  Dog, Two, Rehearsal

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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