James Gandolfini Quotes

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

I have been doing this [acting] for a really long time, so I've come to expect things to take a really long time. You get to a place where you do your job and then you dust your hands off and say, "Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens." There's nothing I can do to affect it.

I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

I never not wanted to become an actress.

Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers.

Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

Acting is where my heart is. I love acting.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.