Ray Romano

“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.”

“People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.”

“My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.”

“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'm from New York.”

“I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.”

“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 do still get intimidated by certain things.”

“I love standup and I haven't given it up.”

“I want to do well and I want to fit in.”

“I still do standup.”

“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”

“I'm a little different from the average dude because I'm on high-def TV now.”

“You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.”

“My favorite band - and Bobby Cannavale and Terry Winter have already made fun of me for this - is Chicago.”

“I see the bad in everything I do.”

“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 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.”

“It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.”

“I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.”