James Gandolfini Quotes
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I like idiotic comedies.
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Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
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I'm an angry guy.
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I want nothing to do with privilege.
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Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.
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People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.
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Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?
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I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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I love hearing people laugh.
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I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.
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I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.
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Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
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I have nothing but respect for HBO.
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It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.
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Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.
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I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.
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You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.
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'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.
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I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.
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All writers are vampires.
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I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
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I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?
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I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.