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I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.
Denis Leary
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Denis Leary
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 18
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Worcester
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Denis Colin Leary
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Charlotte Rampling, when she was younger, looked exactly like my wife. That's one of the reasons that when I first saw my wife, my knees buckled. Based on her looks alone, she was already in my kitchen making eggs.
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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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When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.
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Everybody's vying for people's attention in terms of eyeballs, earholes, and dollars.
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You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much.
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My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
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I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.
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Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual
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I take music pretty seriously. You see that scar on my wrist? You see that? You know where that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it, OK!
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Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off with shotguns? Where's the problem? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection.
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Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.
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Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.
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Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino...Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup.
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When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.' especially as they got darker when they go to the Christian Bale era.
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I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!
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I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.
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Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.
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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 think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.
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When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.
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