102+ Denis Leary Quotes On Education, Happiness And Cancer

Denis Leary is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director. He is best known for his dark, acerbic stand-up comedy and for his roles in films such as The Ref, The Thomas Crown Affair, and the voice of Diego in the Ice Age franchise. He also starred in the FX comedy series Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll and the drama series Rescue Me. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Denis Leary on life, leadership, education.

Top 10 Denis Leary Quotes

1. Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.
2. 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.
3. Life Sucks,get a helmet
4. All men hear is blah, blah, blah, blah, SEX, blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah, BEER.
5. Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad
6. There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.
7. Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
8. Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.
9. Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.
10. I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

Denis Leary Short Quotes

• I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.
• Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them.
• We drink and we die and continue to drink.
• It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.
• I didn't raise my kids with the fear of God.
• I'm the Lord of the Dance! F-k Michael Flatley, it's me!
• You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.
• Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.
• Everyone should have an evil secret plan.
• I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!

Denis Leary Quotes About Life

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance. — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

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

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

Denis Leary Quotes About Love

I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I'll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. "Moo" — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York! — Denis Leary

Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old '60s songs. She loves songwriters from the '70s that I hate, like Jim Croce and James Taylor, and she loves Stevie Nicks and old jazz classics. — Denis Leary

I have good kids, I love my kids. I try to bring them up the right way, not spanking them. I find that I don't have to spank them. I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done! — Denis Leary

My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it. — Denis Leary

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day! — Denis Leary

Denis Leary Quotes About People

It's important to have your own space. I've never trusted people who do everything together. I call them "Kool-Aid Couples," because it's like they drank the same Kool-Aid and it's drugged them into constantly gazing into each other's eyes. — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

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

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

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. — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

Everybody's vying for people's attention in terms of eyeballs, earholes, and dollars. — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

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

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time. — Denis Leary

Denis Leary Famous Quotes And Sayings

Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino...Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. — Denis Leary

That's why I'm glad Jesus died when he did. Because if he lived to be 40, he would have ended up like Elvis. He was famous already at that point. If he lived to be 40, he'd be walking around Jerusalem with a big fat beer gut and black side burns going, Damn, I'm the son of God. Give me a cheeseburger and french fries right now. — Denis Leary

I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when I take my sunglasses off a second later, it's gone. It's the whole divine intervention thing. You know Jesus had something to do with them winning. — Denis Leary

Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God. — Denis Leary

Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup — that's it. — Denis Leary

I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now. — Denis Leary

I had a relationship with an Italian chick that was built on just fighting and sex. As much as all women won't let go of stuff, Italian girls won't let go of anything. And she punched really hard. I got tired of the arguing it took to get to the sex. — Denis Leary

The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties when a street dealer followed me down the sidewalk going: I got some great blow man. I got the stuff that killed Belushi. — Denis Leary

Elvis and I call up Cadillac dealerships all night long, suckin' down Ny Quil stingers and cheese. He says, what the hell's Lisa Marie thinking with that Michael Jackson crap? — Denis Leary

Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off with shotguns? Where's the problem? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection. — Denis Leary

I take music pretty seriously. You see that scar on my wrist? You see that? You know where that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it, OK! — Denis Leary

Charlotte Rampling, when she was younger, looked exactly like my wife. That's one of the reasons that when I first saw my wife, my knees buckled. Based on her looks alone, she was already in my kitchen making eggs. — Denis Leary

This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky. — Denis Leary

White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who has a sense of humor. This guy is such a moron! It's beyond the point where it's a joke. He's an idiot. — Denis Leary

I was reading an interview with Keith Richards in a magazine and in the interview Keith Richards intimated that kids should not do drugs. Keith Richards! Says that kids should not do drugs! Keith, we can't do any more drugs because you already f-king did them all, alright? There's none left! We have to wait 'til you die and smoke your ashes! Jesus Christ! Talk about the pot and the f-kin' kettle. — Denis Leary

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

"Yeah, well, if you eat red meat, it stays in your colon for fifteen years!" Good! I paid for it; I want it in my ass, okay? I want them to find a meat sweater from my esophagus to my asshole when they open me up in the end! "This guy's covered in meat! He's Meat-Man! He's Meat-Tracheotomy-Man!" — Denis Leary

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. — Denis Leary

One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but he couldn't make a living that way so he had to support his family as an auto mechanic which he also loved doing. He was also such a great dad because when I first told him I thought I wanted to go into show business, his response was okay, that's interesting. — Denis Leary

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

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. — Denis Leary

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control. — Denis Leary

Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years. — Denis Leary

You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much. — Denis Leary

There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both. — Denis Leary

At some level, you've got to have the ability to - especially in film and in front of the camera, you got to have the ability to drop into character and close off the entire crew and the camera and everything else. — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

There's a method aspect to Campbell Scott character and he really wants to get into his character and he wants to cast to go on a fast so that by the time the play opens nobody's eaten in three days because he wants the audience to feel the pain from the stage. — Denis Leary

I wanted a more female point of view. — Denis Leary

The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't. — Denis Leary

Sin is in, and so we begin. — Denis Leary

I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did The Larry Sanders Show with Garry Shandling, and he always said that the second season is better because you know the actors. — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

Most people think, "Life sucks, and then you die." I disagree. I think life sucks. Then you get cancer. Then you go into chemotherapy. You lose all your hair, you feel bad about yourself. Then all of the sudden the cancer goes into remission, and then all of the sudden you have a stroke. You can't move your right side. And then, maybe, you die. — Denis Leary

Don't buy the toys that make the noise! — Denis Leary

Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry? — Denis Leary

The second season is generally easier do because you know the actors better and they know the characters better and if everybody likes each other you can really go all types of places. — Denis Leary

If the world somehow actually ends tomorrow, let all forget about the Mayans and just agree it`s the NHL`s fault — Denis Leary

I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents, and that he can do no wrong in my book. So how's that for prejudice on the Democratic side? — Denis Leary

I've only done two other TV shows [instead of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll], one was Rescue Me and the other was a show called The Job, which was at ABC and only on for two seasons. — Denis Leary

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

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. — Denis Leary

Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: "I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing." — Denis Leary

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning. — Denis Leary

Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie. — Denis Leary

The filter's the best part. That's where they put the heroin. — Denis Leary

Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it. — Denis Leary

I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies, so I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time! I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies, all around my neck, I'll be Tracheotomy Man! He can smoke a pack at a time, he's Tracheotomy Man! — Denis Leary

Dustin Hoffman said this one time, that if he hadn't made it as a film star, he would still be happy as a character actor because he was a character actor because of his face from day one, so he would always work in the theater. — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity. — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago. — Denis Leary

My primary reason for bringing my son on was to have a voice on the show [Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll] that would bring a 25 or 26 year old point of view to it, and my son is very capable of writing that stuff. — Denis Leary

When I become president, all you assholes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down! — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks. — Denis Leary

I try and shoot as often as I can, I cross shoot. I have at least two cameras rolling at the same time. So I'll have two actors or two sets of actors at a time so everybody's basically on camera. So when they improvise we have everybody's coverage. And you can then go in the editing room and find the energy still stays there. — Denis Leary

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? — Denis Leary

There are about a thousand different variations on a horse neigh. Some of them sound like a horse having sex, some of them like a horse having sad sex. — Denis Leary

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. — Denis Leary

Life Lessons by Denis Leary

1. Denis Leary teaches us to be resilient and never give up on our dreams. He has overcome many obstacles in his career and has achieved success through hard work and dedication.
2. Denis Leary also emphasizes the importance of having a positive attitude and staying focused on the goal. He encourages us to stay motivated and never give up, even when faced with adversity.
3. Lastly, Denis Leary reminds us to be kind and generous to those around us. He encourages us to help others and make a difference in the world.