James Gandolfini Quotes

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

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

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

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.

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.

I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.

I'm an angry guy.

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

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.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

I love hearing people laugh.

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.

I like idiotic comedies.

I like dark places.

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?

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

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

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 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 th

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

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

All writers are vampires.

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

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.