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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.
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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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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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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Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old '60s songs. She loves songwriters from the '70s that I hate, like Jim Croce and James Taylor, and she loves Stevie Nicks and old jazz classics.
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I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.
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I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.
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