Quotes from Michael Imperioli

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

I would never put on a Mets hat. Only if I was playing a Met as part of the job. Which, actually, I did a long time ago.

My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.

Being on a TV show is a really good gig for an actor.

In this world, there really is a law of cause and effect: You reap what you sow. Then energy you put out really does come back to you.

Spike Lee is not the first name you would probably think about redoing 'Oldboy.'

There's a whole network of people, particularly in New York, obviously, that came up through the Spike Lee School. I'm one of them. That's big!

One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open.

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.

I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes.