Denis Leary Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• 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

  Trying, Speech, Comedy

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

• 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.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Country, Humor

  Denis Leary (2015). “No Cure for Cancer”, p.93, Anchor

• 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

  Funny, Virginia, Voice

  Song: Meat

• There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Sexy, Humor

  Denis Leary (2015). “No Cure for Cancer”, p.30, Anchor

• 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

  Drama, Hollywood, Able

• I went to school with Steven Wright who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought if these guys can do it then so can I.

  Denis Leary

  School, Guy, One Day

  "Frank Skinner and Denis Leary: flatmates reunited". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2003.

• I certainly know guys in comedy, I know some actors, and I definitely know some musicians, who have survived to a certain age and make a good living doing what they do, but nobody knows who they are. They wake up every day and they have the ability to get paid practicing their art, but underneath it all, if you scratched the surface, you still get, "If I only had my own show . . .," or "If I only had my own band . . ." It's what people always do when they want to be their own star.

  Denis Leary

  Art, Stars, People

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Actors, Comedy

• The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Atlanta, Boston

• You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

  Denis Leary

  Political, Trying, Want

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