Dennis Farina Quotes

You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

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• I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.

  

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• You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

  

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• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

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• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

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• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

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• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

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• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

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• You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

  

  Dennis Farina
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