Ray Romano

Actor

1957-12-21

Quotes by Ray Romano

• Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

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• Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

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• 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.

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• I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

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• I love standup and I haven't given it up.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

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