James Gandolfini Quotes
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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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I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.
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I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera.
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I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260-pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295-pound now.
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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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Those who want respect, give respect.
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I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.
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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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All writers are vampires.
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I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.
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This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are ... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go.
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I have nothing but respect for HBO.
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Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.
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I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.
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I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.
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I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.
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You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?
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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 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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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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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.
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I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.
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I want nothing to do with privilege.
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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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I love hearing people laugh.
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For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.
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I like idiotic comedies.
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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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Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.
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