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 LearyEverything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.
Denis LearyIf you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, "'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie."
Denis LearyThere 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 LearyScience fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.
Denis LearyI'm the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, the freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder - "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of BBQ ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and buskets of cheese, okay? I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I wanna run through the streets naked with green Jell-O all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal?
Denis Leary