Denis Leary Quotes

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

I love New York City; I've got a gun.

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'.

We live in an unsafe world.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

I love living in New York.

Australia is not a safe place.

New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time.

In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.

A snake bite emergency kit is a body bag.

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Then you get these articles about how unhealthy life is in the city. You know; mobile phone tumours - far more likely in the city. Well you know what, so is everything else! Including sex, coffee and conversation.

I live about four muggings from Central Park.

New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.

Someone did a study of the three most-often-heard phrases in New York City. One is "Hey taxi." Two is "What train do I take to get to Bloomingdales?" And three is "Don't worry, it's only a flesh wound.

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

I think war is a dangerous place.

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

A tough guy told me, "I'll bet you $10 you're dead." I was afraid to bet him.

In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes...you have to decide, immediately, you have to go "Ohmigod. Do I look at the most beautiful woman in the world or the craziest guy in the world?"