Joe Pantoliano Quotes & Sayings

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour. — Joe Pantoliano

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks. — Joe Pantoliano

I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw. — Joe Pantoliano

The fact was I never had the tools for proper living, because my family never had the tools, and I thought the entire human race was like that. — Joe Pantoliano

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning. — Joe Pantoliano

Living in the projects helped me with this role. — Joe Pantoliano

We should do another 10 Bad Boys movies. I could come in in one of those electric wheelchairs, like Peter Sellers in Dr Strangelove, just shouting away. — Joe Pantoliano

They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option. — Joe Pantoliano

Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see. — Joe Pantoliano

Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird. — Joe Pantoliano

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s. — Joe Pantoliano

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron. — Joe Pantoliano

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors. — Joe Pantoliano

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this. — Joe Pantoliano

That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it. — Joe Pantoliano

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career. — Joe Pantoliano

My memory is a scary place: you need a flashlight and a gun so as not to get mugged in there. — Joe Pantoliano

When I interview somebody, I look at their resume to see what they've done, who they've worked with, and how many times. If they've gotten repeat work. Those are the kinds of actors I want to hire. — Joe Pantoliano

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off. — Joe Pantoliano

In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man's livelihood. — Joe Pantoliano

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration. — Joe Pantoliano

Actors always have opinions. — Joe Pantoliano

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again. — Joe Pantoliano

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love. — Joe Pantoliano

I think we're going to see the day where commercialized television will not exist anymore, it's going to be vertically integrated. — Joe Pantoliano

The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant. — Joe Pantoliano

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either. — Joe Pantoliano

What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie. — Joe Pantoliano

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb. — Joe Pantoliano

I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions. — Joe Pantoliano

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples. — Joe Pantoliano

We have to promote a movie. It's just extraordinary that everybody I'm talkin' to loves this movie. — Joe Pantoliano

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative. — Joe Pantoliano

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively. — Joe Pantoliano

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years. — Joe Pantoliano

In 2001 New York came under attack, and thousands of people simply evaporated, leaving behind only dust and bits of gold Rolex watches. We were told that we had nothing to worry about, that we should go shopping. I was eager to please my country, for shopping had long been an answer for me, but what I couldn't pay for, I stole. I started to accumulate stuff I felt would make me feel whole: I surrounded myself with symbols of status. I believed the TV commercials with all my heart. I felt that those material things I was being sold defined me. — Joe Pantoliano

You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it. — Joe Pantoliano

The camera looks into your soul. — Joe Pantoliano

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent. — Joe Pantoliano