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Denis Leary
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 18
Actor
Comedian
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Film Actor
Film Producer
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Television Actor
Television Producer
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Worcester
Massachusetts
Denis Colin Leary
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We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
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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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People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
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I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did The Larry Sanders Show with Garry Shandling, and he always said that the second season is better because you know the actors.
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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.
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I went to school with Steven Wright who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought if these guys can do it then so can I.
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I try and shoot as often as I can, I cross shoot. I have at least two cameras rolling at the same time. So I'll have two actors or two sets of actors at a time so everybody's basically on camera. So when they improvise we have everybody's coverage. And you can then go in the editing room and find the energy still stays there.
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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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The key thing is to get that one splash - that one song or that one video for a song - that catches people's eyes. Because it's all digital content now.
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If the world somehow actually ends tomorrow, let all forget about the Mayans and just agree it`s the NHL`s fault
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Don't buy the toys that make the noise!
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My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
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Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold.
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I'm a huge Kevin Youkilis fan.
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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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I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.
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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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We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity.
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You get to a certain point, especially if you're a comedian, where people think certain things. It's like, I don't take the time to explain it to people, it's just part of what I do.
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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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