Kevin James Quotes

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

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

Once a year my back will go out and it’ll be… it’s like a sciatic thing and it’s the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

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.

My favorite movie of all time is ‘Rocky.’

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

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

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

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?

I’m not a Hollywood guy.

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.

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.

I think I invented the phrase ‘Don’t overdo it.

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

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

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 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.

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 could never be James Bond.