Joe Mantegna

Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes…

— Joe Mantegna

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

— Joe Mantegna

You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.

— Joe Mantegna

I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.

— Joe Mantegna

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

— Joe Mantegna

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

— Joe Mantegna

For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.

— Joe Mantegna

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

— Joe Mantegna

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the…

— Joe Mantegna

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

— Joe Mantegna

I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

— Joe Mantegna

When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us,…

— Joe Mantegna

There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.

— Joe Mantegna

If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.

— Joe Mantegna

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

— Joe Mantegna

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

— Joe Mantegna

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

— Joe Mantegna

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

— Joe Mantegna

The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on…

— Joe Mantegna

That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.

— Joe Mantegna

Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an…

— Joe Mantegna

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable…

— Joe Mantegna

That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

— Joe Mantegna

When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to…

— Joe Mantegna

But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do…

— Joe Mantegna