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" I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. "
Dennis Farina
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You
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" Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had. "
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" I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was. "
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" Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it. "
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" I think my high-school acting career lasted a day. "
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" Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes. "
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" Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies. "
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" I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea. "
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" I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled. "
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" I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words. "
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" When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything. "
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" I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman. "
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" There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. "
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" I was a policeman for 18 years. "
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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. "
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" We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain. "
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" One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously. "
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" 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. "
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Never
Always
Done
" I think all actors are supposed to be character actors. "
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" I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up. "
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Golf
Me
Taken
" This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason. "
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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. "
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You
Some People
" I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter. "
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Going
Morning
" I have no message or answers to social questions. "
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Questions
Social
Message
" I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them. "
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Ways
Own
" If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine. "
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Want
Whatever
" 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. "
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Editing
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" I'm very lucky. I'm the most fortunate guy that I know. "
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Very
Lucky
" I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements. "
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" There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical. "
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