Ray Romano

“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.”

“If I had never gotten famous or rich, I think I'd be equally neurotic.”

“You know, a TV show is a slow build.”

“I go to Hooters for lunch every day. Then for coffee.”

“I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over.”

“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 have this mistress: show business.”

“I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.”

“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.”

“I like doing film, you know, single-camera.”

“I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.”

“I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.”

“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.”

“I live in L.A. Now.”

“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 was wracked with insecurity.”

“I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.”