Quote

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.

Denis Leary

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Denis Leary
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 18
Actor
Comedian
Composer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Actor
Television Producer
University Teacher
Voice Actor
Worcester
Massachusetts
Denis Colin Leary
Gave
Humor
Funny
Hate
Thay
Much
Croissants
French
Thank
Turned

More quotes by Denis Leary

Image
I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.
Denis Leary
Image
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.
Denis Leary
Image
I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.
Denis Leary
Image
I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
Denis Leary
Image
If you had no enemies, you had no fun.
Denis Leary
Image
Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual
Denis Leary
Image
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.
Denis Leary
Image
I'm the Lord of the Dance! F-k Michael Flatley, it's me!
Denis Leary
Image
Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.
Denis Leary
Image
I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.
Denis Leary
Image
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.
Denis Leary
Image
Firefighters don't go on strike.
Denis Leary
Image
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.
Denis Leary
Image
What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
Denis Leary
Image
With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.
Denis Leary
Image
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.
Denis Leary
Image
My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
Denis Leary
Image
I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!
Denis Leary
Image
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.
Denis Leary
Image
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.
Denis Leary