Quotes by James Gandolfini - Page 1

I'm an angry guy.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Angry
Guy
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I like dark places.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Dark Places
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I like idiotic comedies.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Comedy
Idiotic
Comedies
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All writers are vampires.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Bedtime
Vampire
All Writers
Vampires
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I love hearing people laugh.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Hearing
Laughing
People
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I have nothing but respect for HBO.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Hbo
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I want nothing to do with privilege.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Privilege
Want
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Those who want respect, give respect.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Giving
Sopranos
Want
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I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.
James Gandolfini / Actor
New York
Hard
Relax
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I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.
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For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Guy
Losing
Temper
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I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Considering
Looks
Lucky
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Good Writing
Sometimes
Writing
Bring
Even
Expect
Places
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Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Acting
Fun
People
Finding
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I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Cameras
Props
Wells
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You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?
James Gandolfini / Actor
Doe
Feelings
Pairs
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I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Cry
Laughing
Sopranos
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I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.
James Gandolfini / Actor
New Orleans
Love Freedom Good
Orleans
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Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?
James Gandolfini / Actor
Actors
Character
Said
Actor
Character Your Will
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People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Actors
Knows
People
Work People Know
Incredibly
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Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Parenting
Father
Mother
Mother And Father
Moving
Supportive
Wanted
Mother Mother And Father Father
Both
Career
Father Mother And Father Mother
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Jobs
Home
Actors
Truck
Truck Driver
Driver
Go Home
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Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Grows
Pants
Pretending
Horrifying
Occasionally
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Long
Sopranos
Writing
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Sopranos
The Sopranos
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Men
Clothes
Grown Man
People
Pretending
Standing
Strange
Grown
Strange Way
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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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Mafia
Mexican
Pounds
Skinny
Thin
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Men
Character
Play
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Bother
Character
Mafia
Thinking
Character Me Will
Personally
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Dark
Lucky
Thinking
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I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Smart
Thinking
Writing
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Ghouls
Thinking
Vampire
All Writers
Writers
Slip
Vampires
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Hearing
Needs
People
Love People Doing
Cracking
Theaters
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Kids
Pounds
School
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Changed
High School
Woody
Allen
Pound
Woody Allen
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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?
James Gandolfini / Actor
Blah
Interesting
Mean
Thinking
Who Cares
Cares
Hear
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Jobs
Party
School
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Fighting
Laughing
Tv Shows
Bonds
Quicker
They Say
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Character
Saws
Useless
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Journey
Mother
Stupid
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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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Intelligent
Succeed
Forgot
Understandable
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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 twenty-five 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.
James Gandolfini / Actor
Intelligent
School
Thinking
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