James Gandolfini

Actor

57 Quotes

All writers are vampires.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

I love hearing people laugh.

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.

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.

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.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

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

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.

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

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.

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?

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

I like idiotic comedies.

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.

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.

I like dark places.

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