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Dennis Farina Quotes

The most credible police shows I’ve ever seen were ‘Barney Miller’ on TV and ‘The French Connection’ movie. They showed the tedious side of police work.

– Dennis Farina

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.

– Dennis Farina

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.

– Dennis Farina

I didn’t fall for a lot of that stardom stuff.

– Dennis Farina

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.

– Dennis Farina

If I’m characterized as a character actor, that’s fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.

– Dennis Farina

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.

– Dennis Farina

I’m just a character actor.

– Dennis Farina

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

– Dennis Farina

One of the funny things in life to me is a guy who takes himself very seriously.

– Dennis Farina

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

– Dennis Farina

Car chases usually don’t involve major criminals – they’re usually guys afraid of getting another traffic ticket.

– Dennis Farina

I’ve tried writing. Two days later I’d go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

– Dennis Farina

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.

– Dennis Farina

My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago.

– Dennis Farina

I was a policeman for 18 years.

– Dennis Farina

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.

– Dennis Farina

Chicago’s always a friendly place to me.

– Dennis Farina

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