Best James Gandolfini Quotes & Sayings

What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds. — James Gandolfini

I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor. — Christa Campbell

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. — James Gandolfini

I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do. — James Gandolfini

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin. — James Gandolfini

But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show. — Michael Imperioli

Mario you are a great chef but you look like a homeless James Gandolfini. — Jim Norton

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. — James Gandolfini

I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something. — James Gandolfini

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time. — James Gandolfini

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes. — James Gandolfini

I'm an actor ... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job. — James Gandolfini

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you. — James Gandolfini

I have nothing but respect for HBO. — James Gandolfini

They're naughty, all those writers - they mess around with people. I know James Gandolfini got a bit fed up on 'The Sopranos': if he said anything in front of a writer, told them a story from his life, it could make its way into the script. — Kelly Macdonald

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally. — James Gandolfini

I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character. — James Gandolfini

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable. — Dick Cavett

'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good. — James Gandolfini

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260 pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295 pound now. — James Gandolfini

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying. — James Gandolfini

I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man. — James Gandolfini

I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've gotten to work with some very talented actors - James Gandolfini, Treat Williams. I've kind of always asked for advice and tried to take in as much as I could whenever working with them. — Steven R. McQueen

I like the prop food so much that I eat it between takes as well as on camera, — James Gandolfini

Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people. — James Gandolfini

James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time ... A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes. I remember telling him many times, 'You don't get it. You're like Mozart.' — David Chase

I'm an angry guy. — James Gandolfini

I want nothing to do with privilege. — James Gandolfini

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor. — James Gandolfini

I love hearing people laugh. — James Gandolfini

Nobody ever pegged James Gandolfini for a leading man. Least of all James Gandolfini. — Michael Riedel

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character? — James Gandolfini