Michael Imperioli Quotes

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• Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things…
• I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.
• Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot…
• Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers…
• Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city,…
• I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really…
• I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make…
• I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time…
• I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.
• In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
• John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in…
• My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.
• Not to toot our own horn, but when 'The Sopranos' was on, it was as good as any movie that was coming out in the…
• There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty soul-destroying. I don't…
• To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted.…
• But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.

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