Joe Mantegna Quotes

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• But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.
• Dean Martin is one of my heroes.
• But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then…
• For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.
• I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place.
• I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can…
• I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for…
• I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
• I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
• I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
• 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.
• That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
• Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to dictate where we are going.
• If you're going to believe in a God, then you also have to equally believe that there's a flip side to this.
• There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.
• There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.
• There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
• For every Mother Teresa, there's a Jeffrey Dahmer.
• I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.
• I've spent the better part of the last twenty-five years doing a lot of traveling.

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