Quotes from Kevin James

I think I invented the phrase 'Don't overdo it.'

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

You don't want to do anything that doesn't glorify God in every way.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

I really wasn't a class clown.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

Every time you make a decision, you mess with someone's life.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next '1' ready to be launched in case I drop.

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

I could never be James Bond.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.