Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they’ll let it loose and you go, ‘Ah that’s great.’
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.
Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.
Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.
When I’m on stage, that’s me. It’s blown up, but that’s me.
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 only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.
No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
Sometimes ‘great acting’ is just showing off – chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors – the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
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.
The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.
There’s no male Oprah.
There’s no way around it – drama is very difficult to shoot. It’s very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.
There’s not going to be a ‘Rescue Me’ movie. Not a chance.
Here’s the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.
I basically – I don’t like tattoos, unless you’re a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That’s – those are people who should have tattoos.
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.
Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.