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Ray Romano

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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.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.
Ray Romano
I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.
Ray Romano
I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
I love standup and I haven't given it up.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
In a way, comedy is like sex. The more noise you hear, the better you think you're doing.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
I do still get intimidated by certain things.
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.
Ray Romano
I lived at home till I was 29.
Ray Romano
When I dance people think Im looking for my keys.
Ray Romano
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
Having children is like living in a frat house nobody sleeps everythings broken and theres a lot of throwing up.
Ray Romano
My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.
Ray Romano
I have this mistress: show business.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.
Ray Romano
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.
Ray Romano
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
Ray Romano
The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.
Ray Romano
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.
Ray Romano

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