Ray Romano has entertained millions over the course of his career, but he jokes that his wife Anna, is no longer impressed. "She's over it," he quips in the new issue of PEOPLE. Romano, 65, best known as affable everyman Ray Barone on his 1996-2005 CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, made his directorial debut with the new movie Somewhere in Queens.

And like he's done with his stand-up act and his TV show, he borrowed liberally from his own life for jokes and plot points in the movie about an Italian-American family in New York City's outer borough. Things go awry when married dad Leo (Romano) becomes hell-bent on making sure his teenage son Sticks (Jacob Ward) gets a basketball scholarship.