Denis Quotes

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.

He [ Campbell Scott ] is also a really funny guy which not a lot of people know.

The key thing is to get that one splash - that one song or that one video for a song - that catches people's eyes. Because it's all digital content now.

When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.

Rosemary Rodriguez directed on Rescue Me for us, and I love her. She's fantastic with actresses and she's got a great sense of humor. That was a huge thing for me.

I wanted a more female point of view.

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.

Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.

Don't buy the toys that make the noise!

Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.

It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

You get to a certain point, especially if you're a comedian, where people think certain things. It's like, I don't take the time to explain it to people, it's just part of what I do.

I'm the Lord of the Dance! F-k Michael Flatley, it's me!

On a movie, you have a great time, and you're really enjoying the work, and then everybody is done and goes their separate ways, and you maybe never get to work with those people again.

I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

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

People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

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.

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles.

I went to see the 'Spider-Man' movies because my wife is a fan, and so are my kids.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

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.

I studied acting in school and then of course couldn't get an acting job.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

I'm a huge Kevin Youkilis fan.

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.

If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.

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."

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.

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

I'm not really a Spider-Man fan. I'm more of a Batman guy.

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

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.