Denis Leary Quotes

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

I just like to build. Don't get me wrong: I think stand-up is great, and when someone like Richard Pryor or Steve Martin does stand-up, there's nothing better in the world. But I don't want to watch a lot of stand-ups for two hours. So I can do 45 minutes of stand-up and then say, 'Can we do something else now?'

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

Stand-up will always be my favorite and the most important thing that I do. I view everything else as free money.

We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.

I love the comedy world and really grew up in green rooms, so I wanted to show the positives and negatives.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

I just like doing standup, that's all I'm interested in or good at.

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.