I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.
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.
I wanted to do something different, but it's a weird transition you're making here. You're trying to get the audience to come with you.
If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way. You can just do the same character over and over again and make a different comedy like over and over again.
If I'm really considering doing film from now on then that is the smart thing to do, or you can go either way.
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
It's hard for me - I'm not very decisive; I'm very insecure. I know that. So in that sense I can relate to him.
My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.
People are going to see both of us and think it's an Abbott and Costello kind of thing. It's not an easy switch. It's not an easy transition from TV to film.
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.
This audience is used to seeing you every day for 8 years, so that's your audience that maybe is coming to this movie.
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
A love song is just a caress set to music.
Ray went back to Queens College and excelled making it to the Dean's List for three years while studying accounting.
His mother's name is Lucie and she was a piano teacher.
his favourite colour is blue.
His favourite car is a 69 Malibu.
He has a dog named Nemo.
Ray: You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
He is the middle child of three boys.
Ray once admitted to being jealous of fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
Ray released a CD titled Ray Romano: Live at Carnegie Hall and kindly donated all of its proceeds to the September 11 Fund.
Ray dropped out of Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood, New York to go to Hillcrest High School.
Ray: 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're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.
Ray Romano: If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
His salary in 2001 was $19,000,000.
He has performed at the White House Correspondents Dinner for President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore
He was classmates with comedienne Fran Drescher in high school and has even guest-starred as his Ray Barone character on The Nanny.
He is 6' 2.5" tall.
Ray has been married to Anna Scarpulla since 1987 and have four children.
Ray played Maurice in the 2006 film Grilled.
Ray played Handy Harrison in the 2004 film Welcome To Mooseport.
Ray has signed on to do a new movie called The Grand, which includes Dennis Farina, Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines and Jason Alexander. The film, set during a poker tournament in Las Vegas, begins shooting in July 2006.
In 2006, Ray was ranked #55 on Forbes "Top 100 Celebrities."
He shares his birthday with actor Kiefer Sutherland.
He originally wanted to be an accountant.
Anna Scarpulla is his wife.
Ray made a fourth guest appearence on "The King of Queens" on the episode which first aired on November 28th, 2005.
Won the "Best Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" Emmy in 2002. In his thank you speech, he said, "[My wife] said to me 'I hope you win...but if you do and you go up and say you love me, don't think it makes up for never saying it when we're alone.' "
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