Quotes from Dennis Farina

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

Change never bothers me, not really.

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.

I'm a bit of a clotheshorse, and having a tailor-made suit is a big deal.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.

I'm just a character actor.

I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

I was a policeman for 18 years.

Rooting for the Cubs is not easy, but the best things in life never are.

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

I would love, one day before this is all over, to do a Western. That, and to play a priest.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.