Temptation’s something you have to deal with even if you’re not famous. It’s harder when you’re famous because it’s a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes. – Denis Leary
Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. – Denis Leary
George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live. – Denis Leary
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. – Denis Leary
You try to – you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that’s where the – where the comedy is. – Denis Leary
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don’t think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind. – Denis Leary
I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how’s that for prejudice on the Democratic side? – Denis Leary
First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I’ve gotta have trucks. It’s in the northeast; I’ve got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I’m driving, I don’t have to have an SUV, but I want a big car. – Denis Leary
I’ve always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots – I’m pretty good with either one. – Denis Leary
Sometimes ‘great acting’ is just showing off – chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors – the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. – Denis Leary
It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that’s not the case. – Denis Leary
I remember 9/11; we had ‘Comics Come Home’ about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone. – Denis Leary
Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they’ll let it loose and you go, ‘Ah that’s great.’ – Denis Leary
I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, ‘I’m going to be a hockey player.’ – Denis Leary
When I was a teenager, you couldn’t get straight pants. Then in ’76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again. – Denis Leary
Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he’s always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he’s important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O’Reilly, except shorter and Jewish. – Denis Leary
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in. – Denis Leary
Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except ‘FX makes the show that I see on my computer.’ – Denis Leary
Usually when you watch a film, you’re just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently. – Denis Leary
I don’t really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It’s not my thing. It’s like Tom Hanks territory. – Denis Leary
No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They’re always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about. – Denis Leary
In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it’s going to be a great group – similar to the theater where it’s a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it’s five or six or seven years of this kind of work. – Denis Leary
My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don’t think he ever missed a hockey game I was in. – Denis Leary