Ray Romano

“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...”

“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.”

“Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.”

“I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means. I shoot 90 to a hundred or, once in a while, 85.”

“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.”

“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 ye...”

“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 don't watch 'Mad Men.'”

“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...”

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

“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 would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.”

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

“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 o...”