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" This face is nothing to brag about. I don't know what it is that these people see in my face. "
Dennis Farina
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" I didn't fall for a lot of that stardom stuff. "
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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 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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" 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 think all actors are supposed to be character actors. "
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" 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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" I've worked on what I think are good things. "
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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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" My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago. "
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" Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies. "
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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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" This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer. "
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" Chicago's always a friendly place to me. "
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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'm a bit of a clotheshorse, and having a tailor-made suit is a big deal. "
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" I was a policeman for 18 years. "
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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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" 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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