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Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.
Denis Leary
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Denis Leary
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 18
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I've always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots - I'm pretty good with either one.
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Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.
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I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.
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The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't.
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It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them Kool-Aid Couples, because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes.
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Everybody's vying for people's attention in terms of eyeballs, earholes, and dollars.
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I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.
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I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.
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At some level, you've got to have the ability to - especially in film and in front of the camera, you got to have the ability to drop into character and close off the entire crew and the camera and everything else.
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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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I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.
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Most people think, Life sucks, and then you die. I disagree. I think life sucks. Then you get cancer. Then you go into chemotherapy. You lose all your hair, you feel bad about yourself. Then all of the sudden the cancer goes into remission, and then all of the sudden you have a stroke. You can't move your right side. And then, maybe, you die.
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If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
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I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
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This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.
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I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.
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Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.
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