I don't watch 'Mad Men.'
— Ray Romano
I go to Hooters for lunch every day. Then for coffee.
My favorite band - and Bobby Cannavale and Terry Winter have already made fun of me for this - is Chicago.
I have some classes in accounting, but I don't know anything about accounting. I - you know, when my accountant tells me all the things he does, it's a foreign language to me.
I see the bad in everything I do.
As successful as it may appear I am, I don't really feel that. It's like, you know you've achieved some level of success, and you know what you've done, and yet you still feel you have more to do and more to prove.
I like a good cry - it's cathartic; it's a release. But I've never been able to be so free to do that on camera the way some actors can.
I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.
I realized I need to work. I need to be creative. As much as I have angst and anxiety, when I'm idle, it's even more. I have to keep moving. Otherwise, I catch up with myself.
I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.
I want to do well and I want to fit in.
The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.
I still got my hair, I'm not fat.
The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.
I'm a little different from the average dude because I'm on high-def TV now.
I lived at home till I was 29.
In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.
Anna would be just as happy with me if I were a plumber. As a matter of fact, when she married me, I was working at a bank and living at home. I didn't move out until I was 29!
I just go to work, come home. And my wife lets me throw my clothes on the floor, and she doesn't say anything, so I must be making some money.
I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. I shoot 90 to a hundred or, once in a while, 85.
Doris Roberts had an energy and a spirit that amazed me. She never stopped. Whether working professionally or with her many charities or just nurturing and mentoring a green young comic trying to make it as an actor, she did everything with such a grand love for life and people, and I will miss her dearly.
You're only as good as your last joke, your last show, your last whatever. The confidence is there, but underneath, there is always insecurity.
When I started out, Jay Leno used to say you're not as good as you think you can be until at least your sixth year. I was like, what the hell is he talking about? 'Cause I was in my third year, and I thought, 'I got this.' I kept videos of myself performing, and in my fifth year I watched my third year and realized he couldn't have been more right.
If I had never gotten famous or rich, I think I'd be equally neurotic.
I remember I did the movie 'Eulogy,' and there was a dramatic moment in it. It was pretty heavy, and I went for it. It was... I didn't feel that comfortable doing it.
My career has been my craziest adventure.
You know, before I would think, my cab driver hates me. Now I think my limo driver hates me.
I do still get intimidated by certain things.
The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.
Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.
I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.
I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.
I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.
When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.
My hair was long - in my high school year book, I looked like an ugly David Cassidy.
My joke used to be about my father and Peter Boyle: that anything you see Peter Boyle do on TV, my father has done in real life without pants on.
In stand-up, there's that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it's not a rule.
Every backstory involves my father. I remember hearing Gary Oldman talking about backstories and saying, 'I got to stop using my father...' And I feel the same way. I don't know. What I come up with always involves some element of this son trying to prove himself to his father.
I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.
I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I can cry at a - this is a running joke in my house, but... a good 'Star-Spangled Banner' can make me cry. I'm not kidding.
I didn't want to have to follow 'Everybody Loves Raymond' with another sitcom. Let it be my sitcom legacy, and leave it at that.
My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.
You know, a TV show is a slow build.
I don't get sick.
After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'
I was wracked with insecurity.
I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.
I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.
