Quotes from 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.

You know, a TV show is a slow build.

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.

My hair was long - in my high school year book, I looked like an ugly David Cassidy.

That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream.

For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.

You're only as good as your last joke, your last show, your last whatever. The confidence is there, but underneath, there is always insecurity.

I still do standup.

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.

If I had never gotten famous or rich, I think I'd be equally neurotic.

When you're in the living room every week for nine years as one character, it's hard for some people to see you as someone else.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

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 are born and start using sleep deprivation to torture you.

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.

I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.

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.

My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

My theory has always been that everyone in show business is there because they were deprived of some attention as a child.

I have this mistress: show business.

I'm aging, and the world is seeing it.

As successful as it may appear I am, I don't really feel that. It's like, you know you've achieved some level of success, and you know what you've done, and yet you still feel you have more to do and more to prove.

Each day it's like: 'How many more days am I going to feel young and vibrant? I feel young and vibrant now, but I also feel the aches and pains a little bit.

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 year, and I thought, 'I got this.' I kept videos of myself performing, and in my fifth year I watched my third year and realized he couldn't have been more right.