Quotes from 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.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

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.

The camera looks into your soul.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Bad Boys II has knocked everyone's socks off.

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.

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