James Gandolfini Quotes

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

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• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Family
  • Interesting

• I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Desire
  • Someone
  • Chef

• I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Week

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• My characters hope for better lives.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Hope
  • Better
  • Characters

• I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Twitter
  • Commercial
  • Applications

• 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Island

• My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Job
  • Easy
  • Finding

• People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Family

• I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Believe
  • Place
  • I Believe

• Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Hollywood

• When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Sex
  • Degree

• To this day, if you gave me $1,000, I really can't stand up - You can tell a joke. You're a good storyteller and a good joke teller.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Up
  • Good

• The special relationship between twins is that, if there's anyone else in the world that's going to get or be the confidant that you need, it's an identical twin.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Twin

• His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Up
  • Light
  • Eyes

• Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to 'Swingers' with Vince Vaughn's character.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Character

• Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Character