A biography for James Gandolfinihasn’t been written yet.
“Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.”
“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?”
“I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.”
“I like idiotic comedies.”
“What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.”
“I have nothing but respect for HBO.”
“I'm an angry guy.”
“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.”
“I love hearing people laugh.”
“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.”
“Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.”
“I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.”
“'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.”
“Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?”
“I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.”
“People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.”
“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.”
“I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.”
“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.”
“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.”