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I lived at home till I was 29.
Ray Romano
I like doing film, you know, single-camera.
It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.
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 was wracked with insecurity.
I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.
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 love standup and I haven't given it up.
The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play.
After 'Raymond', there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'
I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.
I don't watch 'Mad Men.'
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.
My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.
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.
Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.
If I had never gotten famous or rich, I think I'd be equally neurotic.
I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.
My favorite band - and Bobby Cannavale and Terry Winter have already made fun of me for this - is Chicago.
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.
My career has been my craziest adventure.
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.
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. I shoot 90 to a hundred or, once in a while, 85.
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.
I go to Hooters for lunch every day. Then for coffee.
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.
I do what I do because I love it.
The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.
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 see the bad in everything I do.
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 never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.
If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.
I'm a little different from the average dude because I'm on high-def TV now.
I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.
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.
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.
I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.
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'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.
I'm from New York.
My hair was long - in my high school year book, I looked like an ugly David Cassidy.
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.
I do still get intimidated by certain things.
I want to do well and I want to fit in.
If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
I still got my hair, I'm not fat.
Whenever I walk off the golf course, I thank God that I'm able to tell a joke. I thank God I'm good at something.
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