Most people don’t know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.
My biggest regret in life is that I didn’t hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
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.
The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he’s still as funny as he’s ever been, and he’s still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I’ll still be able to work.
Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual.
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.
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.
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.
The second season is genrtrally 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.
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!
Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever.
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.
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.
My brother and I tortured my mother growing up.
I’m really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
I’m pretty much a chocolate guy. I’m up for any type of chocolate. Any chocolate.
Firefighters don’t go on strike.
I can’t text. My fingers are too big.
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 don’t really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It’s not my thing. It’s like Tom Hanks territory.