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Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.
Dennis Farina -
The most credible police shows I've ever seen were 'Barney Miller' on TV and 'The French Connection' movie. They showed the tedious side of police work.
Dennis Farina
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You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.
Dennis Farina -
Chicago's always a friendly place to me.
Dennis Farina -
When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.
Dennis Farina -
There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
Dennis Farina -
I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.
Dennis Farina -
I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them.
Dennis Farina
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I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
Dennis Farina -
There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical.
Dennis Farina -
My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?
Dennis Farina -
I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman.
Dennis Farina -
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 -
Change never bothers me, not really.
Dennis Farina