"I want you to take away the hope because that’s the thing that’s killing me." ― Denis Leary Topic(s): Hope More From Denis Leary "You can’t teach somebody how to be funny. You’re either funny, or you ain’t." "The things that make me angry still make me angry. George Carlin is 67, and he’s still as funny as he’s ever been, and he’s still angry. And that makes me feel good, because I feel like if I stick around long enough, I’ll still be able to work." "Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he’s always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he’s important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O’Reilly, except shorter and Jewish." More In Hope "You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you’ve just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."― Amy Tan "Before I do a play I say that I hope it’s going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It’s like a drug."― Isabelle Huppert "How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for."― Terence