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" I love England and the historical aspect of it. "
Dennis Farina
Love
Historical
England
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" I'm a bit of a clotheshorse, and having a tailor-made suit is a big deal. "
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" When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working. "
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" Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case. "
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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. "
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" In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time. "
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" I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled. "
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" You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right. "
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" 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. "
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" I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap? "
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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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" 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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" Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are. "
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" There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. "
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" This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason. "
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" Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had. "
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About
Sometimes
" I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning. "
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Need
Learning
School
" We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain. "
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Television
Believe
Know
" 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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Some People
" 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. "
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Watch
World
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" I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh. "
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Work
Think
People
" 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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" My best year was probably 1948, and after that, it's been downhill for me. "
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Year
Downhill
" The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody. "
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" My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants. I just go in and order spaghetti. "
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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. "
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" 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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" Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies. "
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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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" 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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