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James Gandolfini [1961-2013] American

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James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr. was an American actor and producer. He was best known for his role as Tony Soprano, an Italian American crime boss, in the HBO crime drama The Sopranos.

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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.	Home	101
Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.		102
It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.		103
Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?		104
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.		105
I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.		106
I'm not a big, three-hour-play, Ibsen-revival kind of man.		107
I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?		108
All writers are vampires.		109
You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.		110
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.		111
I want nothing to do with privilege.		112
I like dark places.		113
Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.		114
I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do.		115
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.		116
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.		117
I love hearing people laugh.		118
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.		119
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.		120
People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.		121
'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.		122
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.		123
I'm an angry guy.		124
I have nothing but respect for HBO.		125
Part of the fun of acting is the research, finding out about other people.		126
I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.		201
I like idiotic comedies.		202
I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.		203

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