James Gandolfini Quotes

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.

I love hearing people laugh.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 want nothing to do with privilege.

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

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

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera,

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.