Top 100 Leary's Quotes

#1. I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic ... fame is a terrible thing to have.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #22322
#2. Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #27548
#3. You get to a certain point, especially if you're a comedian, where people think certain things. It's like, I don't take the time to explain it to people, it's just part of what I do.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #48731
#4. Man's best friend is his dogma.

Timothy Leary

Leary's Quotes #53943
#5. There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #127353
#6. Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #151779
#7. There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #154956
#8. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #173244
#9. Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #177391
#10. If you want a long-term relationship that doesn't require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there's no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #177784
#11. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except, 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.' So it's harder to get a show on the air, but at the same time, there are a lot of terrific shows.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #190604
#12. I'm gonna get one of those tracheotomies, so I can smoke two cigarettes at the same time! I'm gonna get nine tracheotomies, all around my neck, I'll be Tracheotomy Man! He can smoke a pack
at a time, he's Tracheotomy Man!

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #200463
#13. One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #214265
#14. Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #228332
#15. People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #241248
#16. If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #244464
#17. Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup - that's it.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #252916
#18. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #279077
#19. I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #299919
#20. I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

Rachel Cohn

Leary's Quotes #303047
#21. Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list!

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #303758
#22. Homesick? For a village in the middle of nowhere? Where there's no work and everyone

Susanne O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #311198
#23. I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #335968
#24. Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddy

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #366041
#25. You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #386676
#26. Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that After midnight, all things are possible.

Hunter S. Thompson

Leary's Quotes #411856
#27. When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #443866
#28. Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #445472
#29. My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.

Timothy Leary

Leary's Quotes #458503
#30. I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #471664
#31. Many of us would never have tried psychedelics if it weren't for Leary's popularizing them.

Rick Strassman

Leary's Quotes #473927
#32. I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #485646
#33. She's coming here with Aer Lingus.

Michael O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #488927
#34. It's literally murder on the dancefloor.

Dermot O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #506476
#35. A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #507231
#36. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #534008
#37. Charlotte Rampling, when she was younger, looked exactly like my wife. That's one of the reasons that when I first saw my wife, my knees buckled. Based on her looks alone, she was already in my kitchen making eggs.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #544990
#38. That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.

Paul Leary

Leary's Quotes #551798
#39. Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #560317
#40. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #587334
#41. Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook - BOOM, BOOM, BOOM - which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail.
I couldn't help but smile.

Rick Riordan

Leary's Quotes #617690
#42. I basically - I don't like tattoos, unless you're a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That's - those are people who should have tattoos.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #637859
#43. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #643183
#44. Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #649173
#45. My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #668578
#46. I think daycare is great for people who have to work two jobs. My problem is with people who are dropping kids off at daycare because they want to go out and spend the day golfing or getting their nails done. You know what I mean? That's not why they invented daycare.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #688162
#47. You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #695676
#48. It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #696573
#49. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #707440
#50. Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #720047
#51. Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with O' Leary in the grave
(September 1913)

W.B.Yeats

Leary's Quotes #756572
#52. It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to the office. If I had my choice I wouldn't take holidays but my wife insists on time with the kids. That's enough. Prior to getting married I never took a holiday.

Michael O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #763532
#53. Downturns are the best time to start businesses, because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #767812
#54. There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #772807
#55. There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

Timothy Leary

Leary's Quotes #773854
#56. Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

Michael O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #790045
#57. The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip ...

Timothy Leary

Leary's Quotes #799615
#58. It's human nature for people to expect people to be what they see on the screen.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #818780
#59. Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #831463
#60. I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's unique about the new CBC: you get a Kevin O'Leary on it when five years ago you wouldn't.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #846661
#61. Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #849910
#62. All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #863573
#63. I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when I take my sunglasses off a second later, it's gone. It's the whole divine intervention thing. You know Jesus had something to do with them winning.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #872517
#64. When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

Joe Rogan

Leary's Quotes #905419
#65. Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #912625
#66. If we possessed the facility to fully plumb the depths of the Creator's thoughts, He would not be God, because God's thoughts are beyond the range of human understanding - unimaginably far beyond anything we could ever imagine.

Leary Bonnett

Leary's Quotes #923746
#67. I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results.

Michael O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #924964
#68. The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #935701
#69. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #943118
#70. Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is why they impose such colorful embarrassments upon them.

Timothy Leary

Leary's Quotes #958456
#71. The filter's the best part. That's where they put the heroin.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #994234
#72. I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #996364
#73. If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Kevin O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #1036123
#74. Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1061554
#75. I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].

William S. Burroughs

Leary's Quotes #1086077
#76. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1115060
#77. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1128738
#78. Hockey's my favorite sport.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1133199
#79. First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1150781
#80. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D.

Timothy Leary

Leary's Quotes #1168562
#81. Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

William Butler Yeats

Leary's Quotes #1171375
#82. When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1172301
#83. Thou shalt not alter thy brother's consciousness without his consent. - The Second Commandment of Leary

Timothy Leary

Leary's Quotes #1201753
#84. I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever been there? It's not nice.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1206966
#85. Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

Ken Kesey

Leary's Quotes #1207217
#86. Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1226733
#87. I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1287719
#88. There's a method aspect to Campbell Scott character and he really wants to get into his character and he wants to cast to go on a fast so that by the time the play opens nobody's eaten in three days because he wants the audience to feel the pain from the stage.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1297389
#89. "Yeah, well, if you eat red meat, it stays in your colon for fifteen years!" Good! I paid for it; I want it in my ass, okay? I want them to find a meat sweater from my esophagus to my asshole when they open me up in the end! "This guy's covered in meat! He's Meat-Man! He's Meat-Tracheotomy-Man!"

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1307309
#90. There's a place I travel when I want to roam, and nobody knows it but me./The roads don't go there and the signs stay home, and nobody knows it but me./ It's far, far away and way, way afar, it's over the moon and the sea/and wherever you're going that's wherever you are./And nobody knows it but me.

Patrick O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #1326383
#91. First time was instinct. I hear O'Leary go, "Jesus," and there's a skinny brown dog lapping up blood the same way he'd lap up water from a bowl. It wasn't American blood, but still, there's that dog, lapping it up. And that's the last straw, I guess, and then it's open season on dogs.

Phil Klay

Leary's Quotes #1337690
#92. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1345941
#93. Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!

Timothy Leary

Leary's Quotes #1380482
#94. What's politically correct a lot of times is not funny.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1387668
#95. I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1404022
#96. 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.

Denis Leary

Leary's Quotes #1415499
#97. I'm Europe's most underpaid and underappreciated boss. I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider.

Michael O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #1448521
#98. Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.

Timothy Leary

Leary's Quotes #1464178
#99. In Sussex, if it's not the Devil that makes an appearance, then it's likely to be a dragon.

Michael O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #1480015
#100. Frankie runs a sex moon and has kids. My head hurts just thinking about it. You still keep up with her, too, then?"
Ryelle's face took on a hunted expression. "She sends me coupons, Declan.

Michelle O'Leary

Leary's Quotes #1484942

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