James Gandolfini Quotes

'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

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

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

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

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

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

- James Gandolfini

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

I love hearing people laugh.

- James Gandolfini

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

- James Gandolfini

I like idiotic comedies.

- James Gandolfini

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

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

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

- James Gandolfini

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

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

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

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

- James Gandolfini

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

- James Gandolfini

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

- James Gandolfini

All writers are vampires.

- James Gandolfini

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

- James Gandolfini

I want nothing to do with privilege.

- James Gandolfini

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

- James Gandolfini

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

- James Gandolfini

I'm an angry guy.

- James Gandolfini

I like dark places.

- James Gandolfini

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

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

- James Gandolfini