You know, all writers are vampires and they’ll look around and they watch you when you’re not even thinking they’re watching you and they’ll slip stuff in. – James Gandolfini
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. – James Gandolfini
I just don’t think I’m that interesting. I don’t think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who… cares? – James Gandolfini
It is a dark, dark world. If you’re going to be in a dark world, I can’t think of any better one to be in. I still think I’m very lucky to be in it. – James Gandolfini
I lost 30 pounds to play my character in ‘The Mexican’, but people don’t take to skinny mafia men, and I don’t feel right when I’m thin. – James Gandolfini
I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don’t think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don’t think anybody thought I’d succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something. – James Gandolfini
‘The Sopranos’ all came down to the writing. I wouldn’t have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren’t so good. – James Gandolfini
I don’t think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally. – James Gandolfini
I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now. – James Gandolfini
Standing in public in other people’s clothes, pretending to be someone else. It’s a strange way for a grown man to make a living. – James Gandolfini
People don’t know and they shouldn’t know that you work incredibly hard as an actor. – James Gandolfini
Actors will say, ‘My character wouldn’t say that.’ Who said it was your character? – James Gandolfini
Putting somebody else’s pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. – James Gandolfini
I’m an actor… I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don’t ask a truck driver about his job. – James Gandolfini
