James Gandolfini Quotes

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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

  Jobs, Home, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those who want respect, give respect.

  James Gandolfini

  Giving, Want, Sopranos

  "The Sopranos: The Knight in White Satin Armor". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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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

  Dark, Thinking, Lucky

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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

  James Gandolfini

  People, Actors, Knows

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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• You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?

  James Gandolfini

  Feelings, Doe, Pairs

  "In praise of... Tony Soprano" by James Gandolfini, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.

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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

  Men, Clothes, People

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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

  James Gandolfini

  Writing, Sometimes, Good Writing

  "James Gandolfini: A subtle, versatile star who left TV in better shape than he found it" by Mark Harris, ew.com. June 19, 2013.

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• I love hearing people laugh.

  James Gandolfini

  People, Laughing, Hearing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

  James Gandolfini

  Laughing, Sopranos, Cry

  "The Sopranos: Pilot". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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

  James Gandolfini

  Lucky, Looks, Considering

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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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

  Jobs, Party, School

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• I want nothing to do with privilege.

  James Gandolfini

  Want, Privilege

  "Family secrets (part 2)" by Chris Heath, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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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

  Character, Thinking, Mafia

  "Gandolfini Tires of Sopranos' Violence", abcnews.go.com.

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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

  Pants, Pretending, Grows

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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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

  Writing, Long, Sopranos

  "True Grit: James Gandolfini". Interview with Dan Fierman, www.gq.com. October 16, 2010.

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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

  Fighting, Tv Shows, Laughing

  "True Grit: James Gandolfini". Interview With Dan Fierman, www.gq.com. October 16, 2010.

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• For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

  James Gandolfini

  Guy, Losing, Temper

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

  James Gandolfini

  Fun, People, Acting

  "'Sopranos' Star James Gandolfini Dies at 51" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 19, 2013.

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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

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  "James Gandolfini in His Own Words" by Christopher Rosa, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2013.

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

  James Gandolfini

  Character, Actors, Said

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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

  School, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Mother, Stupid, Journey

  "The Sopranos: The Second Coming". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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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

  Smart, Writing, Thinking

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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

  New Orleans

  "Once Tough Guy, Now Nurturer". Interview With Melena Ryzik, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2010.

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• I like idiotic comedies.

  James Gandolfini

  Comedy, Idiotic

  "Once Tough Guy, Now Nurturer". Interview With Melena Ryzik, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2010.

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