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" I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me. "
Dennis Farina
Style
Think
People
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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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" 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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" What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me. "
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" I've worked on what I think are good things. "
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" Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works. "
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You
" 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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School
" When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows. "
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Shows
Detective
" I love England and the historical aspect of it. "
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Historical
England
" Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are. "
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Life
Cubs
" I'm a bit of a clotheshorse, and having a tailor-made suit is a big deal. "
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Bit
Big Deal
Deal
" 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
Too Much
" 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. "
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You
" Change never bothers me, not really. "
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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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Going
Story
Movies
" The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody. "
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Cast
Anybody
Saw
" I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh. "
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Work
Think
People
" I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things. "
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Reality
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Year
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Very
Lucky
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Television
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Know
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Movies
Television