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" I'm very lucky. I'm the most fortunate guy that I know. "
Dennis Farina
Most
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Lucky
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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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" I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character. "
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" I have no message or answers to social questions. "
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" I've been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn't. And then I've thought, 'This movie's not going anywhere,' and it worked. The same thing with television shows. "
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" There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. "
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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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" 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'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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" I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman. "
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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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" People are always telling me to shut up about Chicago. "
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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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" We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain. "
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" 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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Learning
School
" 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've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up. "
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Golf
Me
Taken
" I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled. "
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Anything
Want
Talked
" I think my high-school acting career lasted a day. "
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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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Back
Say
Lose
" 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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Mirror
See
Look
" When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York. "
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Going
Take
New York
" Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it. "
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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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" Car chases usually don't involve major criminals - they're usually guys afraid of getting another traffic ticket. "
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" I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago. "
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" 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. "
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" I even played a part in 'Miami Vice.' "
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Even
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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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" The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun. "
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