Michael Imperioli Quotes

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

Michael Imperioli

• America
• Drama
• Terrible
• Challenging
• Britain
• Numbing

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• In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

  

  Michael Imperioli
  • America
  • Drama
  • Terrible