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" My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago. "
Dennis Farina
Years
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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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" 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 think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh. "
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" There's not too many offers that come my way about being in a musical. "
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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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" 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'm very lucky. I'm the most fortunate guy that I know. "
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" I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest. "
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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 think my high-school acting career lasted a day. "
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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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" For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind. "
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" Chicago's always a friendly place to me. "
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" 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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" 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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" If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them. "
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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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" There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school. "
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" 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. "
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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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" One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series. "
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