Gandolfini Quotes

#1. The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable.

Dick Cavett

#2. Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini.

Jim Norton

#3. But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

Michael Imperioli

#4. I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've gotten to work with some very talented actors - James Gandolfini, Treat Williams. I've kind of always asked for advice and tried to take in as much as I could whenever working with them.

Steven R. McQueen

#5. James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time ... A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.'

David Chase

#6. I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor.

Christa Campbell

#7. Nobody ever pegged James Gandolfini for a leading man. Least of all James Gandolfini.

Michael Riedel

#8. They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script.

Kelly Macdonald

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

James Gandolfini

#10. I want nothing to do with privilege.

James Gandolfini

#11. 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.

James Gandolfini

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

James Gandolfini

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

James Gandolfini

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

James Gandolfini

#18. '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

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

James Gandolfini

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

James Gandolfini

#21. 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

#22. I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.

James Gandolfini

#23. 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

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

James Gandolfini

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

James Gandolfini

#26. 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

#27. I like dark places.

James Gandolfini

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

James Gandolfini

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

James Gandolfini

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

James Gandolfini

#31. I have nothing but respect for HBO.

James Gandolfini

#32. 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

#33. I love hearing people laugh.

James Gandolfini

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. All writers are vampires.

James Gandolfini

#38. 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

#39. I like idiotic comedies.

James Gandolfini

#40. 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

#41. I'm an angry guy.

James Gandolfini

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

James Gandolfini

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

James Gandolfini