397 Quotes by Denis Leary

I don’t want to see a ‘Sopranos’ movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don’t feel like acting, or you’re getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that’s when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.

I really like ‘Batman.’ Not the TV show, but the dark ‘Batman.’

It’s human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn’t getting paid for it, so I think I’d still be doing it.

I have good kids, I love my kids. I try to bring them up the right way, not spanking them. I find that I don’t have to spank them. I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done!

The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don’t.

There’s nothing wrong with an actor that can’t improvise, but if you’re going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people that can play the game.

When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with ‘No Cure For Cancer.’