Ray Romano Quotes - Page 4

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

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

I have this mistress: show business.

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

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 still got my hair, I'm not fat.

I have this mistress: show business. I get a lot of love and adulation from outside, and [my wife] lets me have that, while she does all the real-life stuff that counts — making sure the kids are going to school and all that. I married a saint — well, a saint who curses.

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

If a guy's ever telling you a four-hour sex story with a straight face, just feel sorry for him. Not for lying to you, but for lying to himself. As a matter of fact, stop him right in the middle of the story and just hug him. Nine times out of ten he'll just break down and cry. He knows you know.

Nothing like a little chest pain to restore your faith.

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

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.

Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

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.

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.

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 was wracked with insecurity.

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

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.

You know, a TV show is a slow build.