Do whatever you’re directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it’s not entertaining. I left that behind me. – Dennis Farina
It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop. – Dennis Farina
You can’t act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
This face is nothing to brag about. I don’t know what it is that these people see in my face. – Dennis Farina
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. – Dennis Farina
Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes. – Dennis Farina
