Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.
Denis LearyI've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.
Denis LearyI wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."
Denis Leary