Quotes By Kevin James

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

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

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.

Every few months I'll pop into a comedy club or go to Vegas.

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.

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.

I could never be James Bond.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I really wasn't a class clown.

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've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

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

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

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

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

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

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

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

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

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.

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

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.

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'