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" For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing. "
Better
Writing
Uncle
" I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it. "
Dresses
He
Way
" I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them. "
Always
Mother
Grandparents
" I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy. "
Funny
Mean
Character
" I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is. "
Something
Think
People
" I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23. "
Family
Girl
Man
" I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something. "
Man
Achieve
Great
" I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore. "
Tour
Play
" I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children. "
Beautiful
Girl
College
" My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff. "
American
Father
Believe
" The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic. "
Son
Uncle
Anger
" The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language. "
Radio
Language
Comedy
" They would wake me up when I was sleeping, and say sing a song for our friends. I had a sweet voice, I had a nice little tenor voice. God knows what I sang, but my whole family would admire me. "
Voice
Family
Sweet
" Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this. "
Life
Him
Want
" When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing. "
Go
Doing
Singer
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