Denis Quotes

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

Firefighters don't go on strike.

I actually like talking.

I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.

I don't want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy.

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.

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.

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

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.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

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.

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

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.

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.

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.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

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.

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

Being religious is quintessentially American.

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

I grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota in a proud Catholic family.

We've seen some good progress, some good forward momentum. We have about Republican senators who have now indicated that they'll meet with Judge Merric Garland.

I’m indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John’s in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh.

Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

I hate singing. I hate dancing. I enjoyed doing 'Cabaret' and 'Assassins,' but I would wither up and die in 'The Music Man.'

I read 'Dracula' in high school. I've been around vampires forever.

For all the import and message of 'The Iliad,' it's ultimately a story that's meant to be heard, and the person hearing 'The Iliad' determines what it means.

If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.