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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.
Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.
I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.
I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it.
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
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.
Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, 'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie.'
If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, "'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie."
I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.
It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.
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.
I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.
Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.
I don't want to see a 'Sopranos' movie. This is just me. I like to think the end is where it was on TV as opposed to becoming a movie.
No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula.
We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!
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.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
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.
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.
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.
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.
I've always had a thing for Catwoman. Michelle Pfeiffer or Halle Berry in tight leather pants, with the boots - I'm pretty good with either one.
It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.'
Campbell [Scott] also directed me in a film with Hope Davis called Final. That was the first thing we did together, but I've known him for years.
In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.
George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.
When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with 'No Cure For Cancer.'
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.
When I was doing standup, I always wanted to get out of the standup world and take it back into the theatrical world, like with "No Cure For Cancer."
I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.
There's nothing wrong with an actor that can't improvise, but if you're going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people that can play the game.
I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.
You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.
There are about a thousand different variations on a horse neigh. Some of them sound like a horse having sex, some of them like a horse having sad sex.
The key thing is to get that one splash - that one song or that one video for a song - that catches people's eyes. Because it's all digital content now.
I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.
People are disappointed that you aren't exactly who they thought you were, as opposed to somebody who's just walking around trying to get some laundry done.
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.
I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.
You know why the French hate us so much? Thay gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into our croissandwich, thank you very much.
The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.
Rosemary Rodriguez directed on Rescue Me for us, and I love her. She's fantastic with actresses and she's got a great sense of humor. That was a huge thing for me.
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.
With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.