Denis Leary
Denis Leary

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

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!

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

My goal is to leave this planet with the biggest carbon footprint I can possibly leave.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought, 'If these guys can do it, then so can I.'

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

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
Denis Leary

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

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
Denis Leary

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

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.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

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.

Denis Leary
Denis Leary

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.