Denis Leary Quotes

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Popularity means people think they know you.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.

A lot of people think I'm a comedian.

I'm not a big fan of just cultivating an image.

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

People who think they know me would be surprised that my whole life doesn't revolve around sex.

Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.

For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.

I have no problem with people seeing me as the nice guy. I hope they don't see me as just the nice guy.

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

You can't control the way people are going to describe you.

People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

Unless you do the same thing, it's tough for stereotypes to stick. That said, whatever you've done that's most popular at a given moment is what people think "you do."

I'm not as serious of a person as people make me out to be. Most people would think that I would be less successful in comedy, but I can crack a joke as well as anyone else.

I feel I disappoint people when I am not 'Samantha.' They seem surprised when I don't have the same voice and the same mannerisms. They were booking 'Samantha,' and I would show up.