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 Copy Share Image
Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things. — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do. — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
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.… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are ... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See,… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
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,… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character? — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people. — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
