Dennis Farina Quotes

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• I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the…
• Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.
• As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.
• I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.
• I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant…
• 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…
• I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.
• I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.
• There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
• What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.
• 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…
• I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.
• 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…
• I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
• I love England and the historical aspect of it.
• I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

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