Kevin James

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Birthday:

26 April 1965, Stony Brook, New York, USA

Birth Name:

Kevin George Knipfing

Height:

178 cm

Kevin James was born Kevin George Knipfing on April 26, 1965, in Mineola, New York, to Janet, an office worker, and Joseph Valentine Knipfing, Jr., an insurance agency owner. He has German ancestry.James attended SUNY Cortland where he played fullback on the football team while majoring in sports management. He realized after 3 years that this wasn't the path for him. After returning home, he decided to break up the monotony of the summer, and joined a community theater. During a play in which he had a comedic role, he so enjoyed the crowd reaction, that he joined his brother's (comedian Gary Valentine's) improv group. He began going to clubs with Gary and realized he, too, had the knack for comedy. He has performed stand-up up for about 11 years. It was on the comedy circuit that he met Ray Romano. While Ray was getting a big break with his own sitcom, Kevin was getting recognition on Star Search (1983). After appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), his big break came at the 1996 "Just for Laughs" Montreal Comedy Festival. Afterward, he landed a recurring role on Ray's sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond (1996).He starred in his own sitcom, The King of Queens (1998), as Doug Heffernan, from 1998 to 2007, and later began a career as a leading film actor, co-starring in Hitch (2005), I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), Grown Ups (2010), and Grown Ups 2 (2013), and headlining Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), Zookeeper (2011), Here Comes the Boom (2012), and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015). Show less «

It was fun because, after shooting, Will and I would eat a jar of pickles and tell each other secrets. It was so much fun! - On Hitch (2005)...Show more »

It was fun because, after shooting, Will and I would eat a jar of pickles and tell each other secrets. It was so much fun! - On Hitch (2005). Show less «

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

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

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 pri...Show more »

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 principles they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later. Show less «

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I could never be James Bond.

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

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

I really wasn't a class clown.

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

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

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'm not a Hollywood guy.

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

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 ab...Show more »

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. Show less «

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

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

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'

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.

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.

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 ...Show more »

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. Show less «

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. ...Show more »

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. Show less «

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 c...Show more »

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? Show less «

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...Show more »

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. Show less «