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Denis Leary
American
Actor
Born:
Aug 18
,
1957
Great
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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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
You
Son
Racism
Two-Year-Old
Folks
Hates
Born
He
Know
Naps
End
List
Taught
One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.
Denis Leary
Great
Care
Own
Desperately
One Thing
About
Firefighters
Equipment
dont Care
Help
Thing
Need
Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.
Denis Leary
You
Will
Some
Firefighters
Most
Encounter
Selfless
Public
Public Servants
Ever
Servants
I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.
Denis Leary
Love
Stuff
French
French Fries
Fries
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.
Denis Leary
You
Comedy
Try
Pretentious
Free
Free Speech
Politicians
Our
Pundits
Pretenders
General
Bubbles
Poke
Over
Heads
Because
Ultimate
Get
Form
Holes
Stand-Up Comedy
Float
Speech
I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?
Denis Leary
Saying
You
Together
Tools
Carpenter
Definitely
Tables
Put
Like
Comedian
Know
Make
Learn
How
Surgery
Brain
Brain Surgery
Being
Chairs
Right
Thing
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
Dog
Every
Our
Pants
At Least One
One Or Two
Would
Some
Pretty
Scene
Takes
Stuff
Like
Least
Wag
Came
Off
Up
Improv
Shoot
Did
Just
Where
Script
Movies
Then
Much
Certain
Flew
Used
Rehearsal
Seat
Two
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
You
Punk
Teenager
Pants
Find
Could
Revelation
Hit
Get
Again
Straight
Then
Started
I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.
Denis Leary
Work
Day
Great
You
People
Problem
Think
Spend
Kids
Out
Jobs
Invented
Dropping
Nails
Know
Because
Go
Off
Done
Getting
Want
Golfing
Mean
Who
Why
Two
My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.
Denis Leary
People
Old
Fire
Building
Other
Our
Neighborhood
Entire
Firefighters
Had
Mass
Couple
Cousin
Left
Up
Five
Trying
Died
Middle
Warehouse
Warm
Who
Homeless
Keep
Jerry
Downtown
Hometown
Right
Started
Save
Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.
Denis Leary
Grief
Better
Become
Lost
Addicted
Responsible
Guys
Having
Firefighters
Term
Know
Because
Felt
Dealt
Real
Lot
Lack
Them
Who
Connected
Kept
Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.
Denis Leary
Women
Job
Fire
Physical
Guy
Never
Leads
New
Most
Passed
Test
Passing
Friction
Department
York
Short
New York
Anybody
Placed
Here
Fat
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
Day
Family
Business
Charity
Money
Way
Members
Distribute
Firefighters
Instance
Were
Surviving
Died
Family Members
Any
After
Who
Helping
Raise
Widows
I did 12 years with nuns, you know. So I came out of it going, like, 'I think Jesus is all right.' The rest of it I think stinks to the high heavens.
Denis Leary
You
Rest
Think
Nuns
Out
High
Like
Know
Came
Years
Stinks
Did
Going
Heavens
Right
Jesus
I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'
Denis Leary
Dark
Batman
TV
TV Show
Like
Really
Show
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.
Denis Leary
You
Comedy
Big
Drama
Guess
OK
Able
Small
Pigeon-Holed
Because
Been
Lot
Get
Theater
Movies
Hollywood
Then
Stand-Up Comedy
Started
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
Time
Pickup
Car
First
Big
Farm
Live
My Time
Horse
Driving
Trucks
Most
First Of All
Because
Got
Gotta
Snow
Northeast
Move
Just
Want
Number
Two
I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.
Denis Leary
Angry
Greedy
Pretty
Self-Centered
Still
What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.
Denis Leary
Funny
Correct
Lot
Times
Politically
Politically Correct
Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.
Denis Leary
Wolves
Off
Ireland
Helped
I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.
Denis Leary
Nurture
Will
Share
Refuse
Bond
There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.
Denis Leary
Revolution
Clothes
Sexual
Sexual Revolution
Wearing
Were
Get
Middle
Laid
Guaranteed
I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.
Denis Leary
Complain
Eaten
Much
Things
I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.
Denis Leary
Hope
Me
You
Take
Because
Want
Away
Thing
We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
Denis Leary
Me
Country
Live
Beside
John
John Lennon
Takes
Him
Bullets
Walking
Hits
Eight
Where
Explain
Lennon
Her
Right
I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time.
Denis Leary
Love
Time
Me
Daughter
Carry
Bought
Fell
Around
Chihuahua
Now
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