I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with. – Denis Leary
If you want a long-term relationship that doesn’t require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there’s no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day. – Denis Leary
Certain movies like ‘Wag The Dog,’ we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we’d have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants. – Denis Leary
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
I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it’s about yourself, or whether it’s about something else. It’s my worldview; it doesn’t mean that everybody has to agree with it. – Denis Leary
One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters. – Denis Leary
The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I’m not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago. – Denis Leary
Most people don’t know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America. – Denis Leary
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
I fell asleep during ‘Year One’ twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That’s how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed. – Denis Leary
My career plan at this point is ‘Ice Age 5′ through ’10,’ and even ’12,’ and ‘Spider Man’ – you know, basically I’d be Emma Stone’s dad for the rest of my career. I really don’t have any problem doing that. – Denis Leary
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I’ve pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. – Denis Leary
Kathy Bates is sexy. It’s partly because of her talent, but she’s got a great face, and a great laugh. – Denis Leary
I think it’s a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven’t had the time to learn their craft. It doesn’t matter if it’s acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic… fame is a terrible thing to have. – Denis Leary
For us as writers, it’s really important to have songs we believe in – even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a song that’s so perfectly designed for a scene on ‘Rescue Me,’ we’ll play it on loud speakers during the shooting. It helps the cameraman and it helps the director, and it helps the actors know what the feel is. – Denis Leary
There’s no way around it – drama is very difficult to shoot. It’s very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day. – Denis Leary
Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I’m not necessarily funny all the time. – Denis Leary
The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was ‘Mean Streets,’ so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, ‘Hi, Denis,’ it’s still a really big deal. – Denis Leary
My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day. – Denis Leary
If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, ‘The Ref’ is my favorite Christmas movie.’ – Denis Leary
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you’re out of the sequel, which is where the real money is. – Denis Leary
Everyone’s got skeletons in their closet, and I’ve got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it. – Denis Leary