Denis Leary Quotes
I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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I always have to be writing.
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The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
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I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.
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I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.
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Acting is not about showing what you're feeling. It's about doing something. It's about what you're doing for the other person. Anything other than 'doing' is not grounded in the truth.
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I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.
