Brian Dennehy

I'm not in the movie business anymore, and hardly any 70 year olds are. I always ask the producers: 'Are there no…

— Brian Dennehy

From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what…

— Brian Dennehy

If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson.

— Brian Dennehy

I lied about serving in Vietnam, and I'm sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices…

— Brian Dennehy

No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to…

— Brian Dennehy

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

— Brian Dennehy

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

— Brian Dennehy

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of…

— Brian Dennehy

As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone…

— Brian Dennehy

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years…

— Brian Dennehy

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

— Brian Dennehy

My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had…

— Brian Dennehy

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

— Brian Dennehy

What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the…

— Brian Dennehy

I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the…

— Brian Dennehy

It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their…

— Brian Dennehy

If you're sixty-something, pushing 70, the chances of you getting a tremendously fascinating part in the movies are very low, as to…

— Brian Dennehy

I've got two artificial knees, I have an artificial shoulder, and I'm reasonably healthy given the damage I've done to myself. Everything…

— Brian Dennehy

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work.…

— Brian Dennehy

The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.

— Brian Dennehy

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody elses rules, and I stayed just good…

— Brian Dennehy

It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I…

— Brian Dennehy

I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there,…

— Brian Dennehy

I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one…

— Brian Dennehy

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got…

— Brian Dennehy