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" For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind. "

Dennis Farina

Diamond

Mind

Think

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Chicago

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" I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled. "

" Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. "

" I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script. "

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" My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me. "

Dennis Farina

Year

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" When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money. "

" The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun. "

" It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop. "

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Great

Time

" This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face. "

" I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman. "

" My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know? "

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" You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost. "

" People are always telling me to shut up about Chicago. "

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Chicago

" Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it. "

" I think all actors are supposed to be character actors. "

" You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director. "

" Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by. "

" Change never bothers me, not really. "

Dennis Farina

Really

Change

" Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works. "

" I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh. "

" One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously. "

Dennis Farina

Life

Funny

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" I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make. "

Dennis Farina

Hard

Know

" I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television. "

" I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago. "

" I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea. "

" I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them. "