Joe Pantoliano Quotes
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I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.
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Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.
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I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron.
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There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.
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One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.
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When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire.
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I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.
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In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
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Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.
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The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.
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I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.
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The camera looks into your soul.
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I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions.
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It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.
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Living in the projects helped me with this role.
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Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.
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We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie.
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They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.
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When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.
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What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.
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I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.
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The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.
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When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.
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Actors always have opinions.