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" I have - and you gotta believe this - hardly ever met anybody in Hollywood who's not nice. There are some people I don't like, but everybody has been very nice. "

Dennis Farina

Nice

You

Some People

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" I even played a part in 'Miami Vice.' "

" Chicago's always a friendly place to me. "

Dennis Farina

Chicago

Place

" Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had. "

" There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. "

" I've worked on what I think are good things. "

" I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. "

Dennis Farina

Chicago

Year

" This isn't the most handsome face in the world, and there are a lot of younger guys out there, but I keep hanging in there. "

" I've probably played more non-police roles than people realize. "

Dennis Farina

Roles

Than

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

" I'm just a character actor. "

" Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes. "

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

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

Dennis Farina

Life

Funny

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

" 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. "

" Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man. "

" I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest. "

" I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap? "

Dennis Farina

Two

Say

" 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. "

" If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine. "

" You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it. "

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

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

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

Dennis Farina

People

Chicago

" We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain. "

" Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with. "

" I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter. "

" I never jumped into anything, and I never liked being cajoled into anything. I've pretty much always done things because I wanted to do them. "

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

" There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical. "